So even though gravity is affecting you you're in free float for the time in the air (in regards to the "frame" around you)? Obvsiouly gravity is still acting on you because you come back down, but the trick is then to establish a frame around you where--relative to the frame--gravity does not...
I'm new here and not sure if this post is in the right spot (it's about Special Relativity) but here goes nothing.
This problem--from the book Spacetime Physics by Taylor and Wheeler--is giving me a lot of trouble.
What I think is that the scale will read zero in the air, because there...