Recent content by William dubose

F=MA? No, I'm wrong. It is the use of the universal gravitational equation: F = GMm/R2

say i were standing next to something very massive, like a battleship in drydock, and i were to hold a feather (not massive) very close to it. Would i witness any gravitational attraction between the feather and the ship? If not, why not? What if i did the same with a single filament of spider...