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Oh yes, an object in motion will remain in motion until a force acts on it to change its motion. That is basic physics, which was first described by Isaac newton. To be more precise, you could also have an object moving forever in an environment that includes gravity, as long as it was moving on a level, completely frictionless surface, which would require magnetic levitation, and of course, no air resistance either, which would require a perfect vacuum (strictly speaking, the surface would not have to be perfectly level either, as long as the variations in height were not too great for the momentum of the object to overcome; it is the frictionless surface which matters). These conditions would be hard to arrange, but in theory it would give you an object that never stops moving. Weight only matters when it results in friction. But it usually does result in friction.

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