The acceleration of gravity on earth depends only, only on the mass of the earth. That's why everything fall at the same rate as light things. If you get shoved off our 12 story building, yeah, everything going to help you. So me and a girl twice my size both get shoved off the top of a building, we're hitting the ground at the same time. Basically, unless she's really large, and then she'll have more air resistance and she'll be. Yeah, she'll she'll have a terminal velocity.
The pull of gravity (the force, not the movie) is irresistible as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Leighann Lord grapple with weighty fan questions about matter and the curvature of spacetime.
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