[Phys-l] feeling gravity, or not

[<carmelo@pacific.net.sg>]

Mike wrote:
> I think we might be talking past each other.  I am not arguing I would 
> feel gravity if I were in free fall.  I am assuming I am supported.  My 
> original response was a reaction to Tom Folkert's comment that when you 
> are standing on earth that you feel the effect of gravity in your feet 
> because of the deformity in your feet.  My comment is that your feet are 
> not the only place you feel it.  Chuck Britton's recent response it the 
> type of thing I am talking about.  If your skeleton is supporting you, 
> then there are deformations all over your body, not just in your feet. 
> You feel the effect of gravity throughout your body.  That's all I'm 
> trying to say.

In a sense, we can't tell whether we are feeling the gravity or the effect of acceleration, or a mixture of both. We could not even feel the effect of acceleration due to the rapid expansion of the universe, if there is any. We can only deduce the feeling if we can look out of the so-called "window"... 


Alphonsus