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Aristotle thought that the heavier object drops faster, and a majority of people

in 2013 probably still do.

The way gravity actually works, however, is that if air resistance can be ignored,

then everything from a piece of tissue to a battleship hits the ground at the

same time, having accelerated at the same rate and matched their speed at

every point during their fall.

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