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- Old documentary says something odd about gravity that I don't understand.
I was watching an old documentary called "Einstein's Universe" from the seventies with Peter Ustinov. They were at a large observatory, outside by the railing, one story above ground, testing Galileo's theory of gravity using two weights of 1 KG and .25 KG of the same shape so air does not affect either one significantly. Dropping them, they both landed at the same time as expected, but one of the astronomers there, the one who dropped the weights, said the following:
I have never heard gravity being described like this. What exactly is meant by this statement? Is he correct? Can someone explain what is meant here in the context of physics knowledge available in the seventies?
“The reason those things all move at the same rate is that objects get their moving orders
from the same piece of space. It’s not the distant Earth, it’s the space right where they are.”
I have never heard gravity being described like this. What exactly is meant by this statement? Is he correct? Can someone explain what is meant here in the context of physics knowledge available in the seventies?