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aaron35510
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In free fall, there is no air resistance, so the only force acting upon the object of free fall would only be its weight.
Now the question is, if an object keeps accelerating due to free fall, wouldn't it eventually reach the speed of light? For example, Earth's g=9.81 m/s^2, so over a course of time, it would eventually accelerate to the speed of light (considering the fact that the object would never hit the ground.)
So since Einstein proclaimed that NOTHING that has mass can travel at the speed of light, wouldn't this prove him wrong?
Now the question is, if an object keeps accelerating due to free fall, wouldn't it eventually reach the speed of light? For example, Earth's g=9.81 m/s^2, so over a course of time, it would eventually accelerate to the speed of light (considering the fact that the object would never hit the ground.)
So since Einstein proclaimed that NOTHING that has mass can travel at the speed of light, wouldn't this prove him wrong?