Weike WangBut, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less.
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The gravity on the moon is significantly weaker than gravity on Earth. If we were to take a physical object and drop it from the Moon to Earth, we would expect it to fall at a slower speed than if we dropped it from the Earth to the Moon. That’s because the force of gravity decreases as you move further away from the Earth. So, when we look at what happens when we take something that weighs 10 pounds on Earth and drop it from the Moon, we can see that it falls at a slower speed than if we dropped it from Earth to the Moon.
But in this case, our 10-pound object wasn’t really in danger in the few seconds it was falling through space. The gravitational force acting on our 10-pound object is so small that we simply don’t notice its effects when we drop things from such great distances.
Source: Chemistry
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