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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (5 children)

There is definitely gravity in space! It just doesn't feel that way because there's no ground so you're mostly in free fall which to you is indistinguishable from being in no gravity. (fun fact: this indistinguishability is actually the crux of General Relativity!)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yep, everything is in freefall orbit of something bigger.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What if you are in the gravity center of the universe?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    i think that would actually be the case most of the time.

    you don't care about anything outside the observable universe and inside that bubble, the cosmological principal would apply, stating that on a large enough scale, the universe and distribution of matter in it is considered homogeneous

    so unless you are in close proximity to some local gravitational source, i think you would be generally affected by roughly the same gravity from all directions.

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