The Poet as Scientist: Effectively, wasn't Aristotle right that heavier objects actually do accelerate to earth at a slightly faster rate than lighter objects?

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Friday, February 25, 2022

Effectively, wasn't Aristotle right that heavier objects actually do accelerate to earth at a slightly faster rate than lighter objects?

Since Newton's law of Universal Gravitation states that F = (Gm1m2)/(r)squared, doesn't it necessarily follow that if the mass of the falling object is greater, the force of gravitaiton will be infinitessimally greater than for a lighter object? Obviously, not by much, if the object isn't anywhere near the mass of the earth of course. If so, why are physicists still publishing experiments claiming that all objects always accelerate to earth at the same rate, regardless of their mass? And, why are physicists sill saying that Galileo was right, and Aristotle was wrong, when, actually, Aristotle's been right all along, according to Isaac Newton, anyway?

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