On 25/03/2018 3:19 PM, Paul Quinn -> David Drummond wrote:
 PQ> Hi! David,

 PQ> On 25 Mar 18 15:01, you wrote to me:

 PQ>>> And the 'hammer & feather' drop test was rigged... mmm?

 DD>> Which test was that?

 PQ> The enactment of Galileo's postulation that in an airless environment a
 PQ> hammer & feather, when released earthward from a height, will both 'hit
 PQ> the dirt' at precisely the same moment.

I would expect the entity with the larger mass would have a greater
gravitational attraction to the bottom of the fall.

If you'd said "a one kilo hammer" and "a kilo bag of feathers" I would need to
rethink.

Didn't someone test this logic at the Pisa tower?

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Regards
David

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