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> There is no mass for which one ball attracts the earth more than the other ball if the other (fixed mass) ball is less than the mass of the Earth. Are you ta
by powertower 15y ago
> There is no mass for which one ball attracts the earth more than the other ball if the other (fixed mass) ball is less than the mass of the Earth.
Are you talking about inertia?
If ball #1 or #2 does not have the mass (and hence gravitational pull) to overcome Earth's inertia ... the Earth does not move towards it.
But wouldn't that force or energy still be conserved and transferred into the ball's own acceleration?
- archgoon 15y ago>If ball #1 or #2 does not have the mass (and hence gravitational pull) to overcome Earth's inertia ... the Earth does not move towards it. That is false. I think you are thinking of friction.