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The bowling ball isn’t falling to the earth faster. The higher perceived acceleration is due to the earth falling toward the bowling ball.

  • pumpkinseedoil
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    1 day ago

    The acceleration relative to the earth is the same, relative to some point from another system the bowling ball accelerates very slightly slower but accelerates the earth very slightly more towards it. The total acceleration of these two bodies towards each other is g.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah you’re making that statement but it’s not true. Their acceleration relative to an inertial reference frame is g. That’s what the law of universal gravitation says, I have no idea where you’re getting that stuff from.