Thank you for the replies. So in free fall, you are experiencing force pulling you toward earth, but you don't feel it because it is essentially uniform across every atom in your body?
I'm trying to get this concept straight in my head. Take, for example, the International Space Station; it is orbiting the Earth in considerable gravity, yet the inhabitants feel weightless. So they cannot be exerting a force on the Earth aside from their own minuscule gravitational pull right...