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minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months ago“down” is “just” a name for the direction everything falls. Why do things fall? What happened to “a body at rest stays at rest”?
minus-squarephutatorius@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months ago What happened to “a body at rest stays at rest”? If no net forces are applied to that body. That’s what.
minus-squarebss03@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI think you may have taken me too seriously, but if so that’s a very dismissive response. I think your reply would be improved by describing at least one (nigh-universal, so it applies to “things” in general) force and saying why it exists.
“down” is “just” a name for the direction everything falls.
Why do things fall? What happened to “a body at rest stays at rest”?
If no net forces are applied to that body. That’s what.
I think you may have taken me too seriously, but if so that’s a very dismissive response. I think your reply would be improved by describing at least one (nigh-universal, so it applies to “things” in general) force and saying why it exists.