Originally Posted By: Bill S.
exists.....Nothing is pulling us downwards." (David Deutsch. “The Fabric of Reality”), and I think: all these chunks of


Maybe it's kind of reversed. The natural state for everything is in freefall. If our acceleration is changed to something that's not freefall then a force has to be continually applied to keep us in that unnatural state. Say the reaction force of the earth pushing up on our feet.

Maybe Newton's laws should be changed to "An object will always be in a state of freefall unless acted on by a force"

Freefall can include linear motion too, like a rock flying through space or the moon orbiting the earth.