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How the Extreme Art of Dropping Stuff Could Upend Physics

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More

Babies love it, and Galileo supposedly tried it: Drop some objects from on high, and see how fast they fall. According to Einsteinโ€™s theory of general relativity, all objects in Earthโ€™s gravity, regardless of mass, should descend at the same rate in the absence of air resistance. But there are plenty of reasons to believe this might not be true.

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