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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: 2010 mistakes/non-mistakes
Message-ID: <1316@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 15:02:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 15:02:12 1985
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Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
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Summary: 

>> Mark Callow mentioned that there is a difference between
>> 'zero gravity' and 'free fall'.  I give up.  What is it?

"Zero Gravity" refers to an ideal state in which no gravitational
forces (or effectively, nearly none) act upon a body so that
it can "float".

In Relativity theory, "free fall" refers to the state in which
an object is acted upon by gravitational forces ONLY.

  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison