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Subject: Re: Which is faster?

Author: Jeremiah Penery

Date: 06:54:26 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 04:14:35, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 18, 2000 at 19:51:19, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>s/simultaneously/within an extremely short time period of each other/
>>
>>Your nitpick misses the point.
>>
>>Dave
>
>Nope, wind resistance, boyance, is also movement of objects even though they're
>somewhat smaller than pepsi cans. Objects of different sizes doesn't hit the
>ground at the same time on earth, unless the experiment is performed in an
>artificial vacuum. I believe you're distorting scientific fact, so it can't be
>nitpicking.
>
>Best wishes...
>Mogens

Have you never seen this experiment performed with, say, a Golf Ball and a
Bowling Ball?  They do hit the ground at the same time - At least a small enough
difference of time not to be noticable by an observer.



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