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  • Understanding Gravity: How It Affects Objects of All Weights
    That's a great question! It's a bit of a misunderstanding about how gravity works.

    Here's the truth: Gravity affects all objects, regardless of their weight.

    Here's why:

    * Gravity is a force of attraction between any two objects with mass. The more massive the objects, the stronger the force of attraction.

    * Weight is a measure of the force of gravity on an object. A heavier object has more mass, so it experiences a stronger force of gravity, and therefore weighs more.

    So, while it might seem like gravity acts more strongly on heavy objects, it's actually that heavy objects *experience* a stronger force of gravity because they have more mass.

    Think about it this way: A feather and a bowling ball both fall at the same rate in a vacuum. They both experience the same acceleration due to gravity. The bowling ball is just much harder to stop because it has more mass, and therefore more inertia.

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