Einstein's equivalence principle is one of the deepest, most brilliant ideas ever advanced in the history of physics. If you did that in a box with no windows, you would not be able to tell if you were on Earth or accelerating through space at 1G. The acceleration of gravity is 32 feet per second per second. And so yeah, there's no micro nothing. It is zero freaking G. Paris. There you go. Zero G. This was fun. You gotta love it.
Does being in space mean there is no gravity? What does noon have to do with the Artemis Mission? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down weightlessness, planetary alignments, and what is going on on the south pole of the moon.
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