The discussion centers on the concept of inertia and its relationship with gravity. Participants clarify that while an object's mass resists acceleration in all directions, including downward under gravity, this resistance does not imply a force opposing gravity. Instead, the acceleration due to gravity is constant for all masses, as demonstrated by the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass. The key takeaway is that while inertia resists changes in motion, it does not create a force against gravitational acceleration.
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There is no such force.inertiaforce said:But gravity doesn't require the object to be accelerated.
The force I am talking about only occurs when a force attempts to accelerate the object.