Re: What is weight? (was Re: Internal or external?)

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Leigh Palmer wrote:

> ... One difference you will note between floating and freely falling is
> that you always know (proprioceptively) which way is up while floating;
> you don't while freely falling.

... and as a die-hard "gravity depends on your reference frame"
kind-a-guy, you know that that is because there *is* no up when you are
free falling.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm