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Re:The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum cha... by josu on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @11:01AM (#8557182)
>versus floating in interstellar space

Versus being inside that an elevator that is being accelerated in interstellar space

This seems like a pretty good explanation: http://www.astronomynotes.com/relativity/s3.htm

Re:The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum cha... by bweitzman on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @02:57PM (#8558710)
gradi3nt had it right

Free fall feels like floating Standing still (in the presence of the Earth's gravity) feels like being accelerated.