zantonavitch Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Remarkable video of world's longest freefall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Remarkable video of world's longest freefall.It was a wonder to behold. I can tell what color my jump suit would have been in the rear.The amazing thing is Baumgartner would NOT have felt any force pulling him down. Einstein was right!Ba'al Chatzaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brant Gaede Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Remarkable video of world's longest freefall.It was a wonder to behold. I can tell what color my jump suit would have been in the rear.The amazing thing is Baumgartner would NOT have felt any force pulling him down. Einstein was right!Ba'al Chatzaf When I did a static line jump out of a helicopter my stomach felt it was in my throat--it must have been like jumping off a thousand foot building (out of an airplane the slip-stream opened your shute with a snap)--so he certainly did feel the initial acceleration. All you can ever feel is your body. To feel gravity is nonsensical. To feel the effect of gravity isn't.--Brantor are we talking past each other ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 True enough, you feel huge air resistance. A hand twitch will flip over your body in free fall at terminal velocity. It took great skill and cool for him to stabilize himself from a spin at Mach 1: if he didn't his chute would not deploy properly, and he'd have been toast. After a few static line jumps from 3000feet, at far less velocity, I never did manage stable body position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaalChatzaf Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Remarkable video of world's longest freefall.It was a wonder to behold. I can tell what color my jump suit would have been in the rear.The amazing thing is Baumgartner would NOT have felt any force pulling him down. Einstein was right!Ba'al Chatzaf When I did a static line jump out of a helicopter my stomach felt it was in my throat--it must have been like jumping off a thousand foot building (out of an airplane the slip-stream opened your shute with a snap)--so he certainly did feel the initial acceleration. All you can ever feel is your body. To feel gravity is nonsensical. To feel the effect of gravity isn't.--Brantor are we talking past each other ?Gravity is not pull. The only force one should feel is the resistance of the air. Gravity is not a force. If there were no obstacles (like the ground) we would move in an uncoerced are along a differential manifold. The only "forces" gravitation produces are tidal forces which are bearly measurable in our weak gravitational field.Einstein was right.Gravity is curvature of the space-time manifold, not a force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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