My point mainly being that gravity appears at first to be one of the simplist things but it turns out to be one of the most complicated
Wasnt gonna come in here and start spouting god
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In answer to the op anyway
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weightless in deep space…
Well, deep space and Earth orbit are two very different environments, requiring two very different answers. No doubt this accounts for a substantial share of the confusion. In either case we must deal with the effects of both gravitational attraction and acceleration.
Weightlessness in deep space is due to the tremendous distances between massive objects. Stuff is so far apart out there that the gravitational attraction imposed on an interstellar spacecraft is very subtle, but certainly not escapable. So long as we avoid accelerationi by changing neither the speed nor direction of our motion during our observations, our vehicle and its contents will indeed exhibit that freefloating state of being we call weightlessness. But alas, we have escaped nothing - far from it. It is gravity, after all, that organizes solar systems into galaxies and galaxies into clusters. It is gravity that controls the expansion of the universe. Our spacecraft would be subject to these same influences. Although this subtle influence is not strong enough to create 'both feet planted firmly on the ground'-style gravity conditions, the very idea of actually "escaping" gravity is the cosmological equivalent to windmill jousting
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http://www.christa.org/gravity.htm#weightless in deep space…
There is also an interesting bit on the zero gravity myth