• dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Because it, ever so slightly, pulls Earth towards it with it’s own, miniscule gravity.

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      5 months ago

      But that doesn’t make the bowling ball fall faster to a distant observer, just the earth fall twords the ball. To an observer on earth it would appear to fall faster though.