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So why does the bowling ball fall faster in a vacuum? Does it appear faster locally because the heavier object makes local time slower than the lighter object compared to a distant observer? I'm trying to understand what the meme is getting at.
That's the neat thing: it doesn't
I’m trying to understand as well.
Because it, ever so slightly, pulls Earth towards it with it's own, miniscule gravity.
But that doesn't make the bowling ball fall faster to a distant observer, just the earth fall twords the ball. To an observer on earth it would appear to fall faster though.
Yeah, I think the meme is intended from the perspective of an observer on Earth.
The ball's acceleration is identical to the feather's, but it's fall ends up shorter.