Hum... What is your measurement error?
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Depends on the color of the feather and the ball.
There's a simple explanation.
Stupid question, bowling balls don't fit through the vacuum's hose.
Ur mom could suck it through
uhmmm ackchshickzually, it's the space-time that's falling
There’s too many words in this meme that’s making me dizzy from all your fancy science leechcraft, wizard.
I reject your reality and substitute my own: the feather falls faster. It’s more streamlined than the bowling ball, and thus it slips through the vacuum much faster and does hit the ground and stay on the ground, I think. The ball will bounce at least once, maybe even three times. On each bounce, parts of it probably break off, which change the weight. Thankfully those broken pieces won’t hurt anyone because they’re sucked up by the vacuum. Thus, rendering your dungeon wizard spells ineffective against me.
This person sciences good
Brian Cox shows ball and feathers falling together in vacuum: https://youtu.be/E43-CfukEgs
I love it when scientists who know something to be true in theory get to see practical experiments like this. The jubilation on thier faces.
The difference in relative acceleration implied by the meme is on the order of tens of yoctometres (10⁻²³ m) per second per second.
It's a difference so small that it would be overshadowed by the fact that you're holding one object femtometres (10⁻¹⁵ m) higher or lower than the other in the gravitational field.
Additional sources of error to consider at this scale might be the heat radiation from the surroundings providing radiation pressure on the object, the sloshing of Earth's core causing time-dependent variations in the gravitational field, the location-dependent variations in the Earth's gravitational field, and the difference in centrifugal (yes, centrifugal in this reference frame) force due to latitude differences of one micrometre, and also due to natural variations in the rate of Earth's rotation over time.
But what weighs more:
A ton of bowling balls or a ton of feathers? 🤔
When you carry a ton of feathers, you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those poor birds...
That's a trick question. Feathers have lower density than bowling balls; a ton of feathers would have a larger volume compared to the same mass in bowling ball, thus the feathers are heavier
Its a trick question because both weigh the same - a ton. The bag of feathers may take up more volume due to the lower density, but it'll still weigh the same as the bag of bowling balls.
Why does a larger volume mean the feathers are heavier?
Because big
So a beach ball weights more than a bowling ball?
You know, I'm not strong willed enough to keep going, but this comment thread is starting to remind me of this post
But ... Steel is heavier than feathers ...