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Re: Gravity Research?

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Posted by Zephram Cochrane/">Zephram Cochrane on November 6, 1999 07:05:16 UTC

:...It seems to me that if you could hollow out a small round chamber in the middle of the earth, and stand on any point in that small chamber, you would be weightless.

Your intuition was correct.

:Unless, of course, you could cancel out the gravity over your head...

I'm not sure that I know what you mean by cancel out the gravity over your head.??

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