# Gravity

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 18, 1999, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841 "1999-11-18T17:24:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Bonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonz)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841/1 "1999-11-18T17:24:00Z")

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Negating the effect of the moon, if the gravitational center of the earth were hollow, what effect would gravity have on you if you were there?

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**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 1999, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841/2 "1999-11-18T17:33:00Z")

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Cecil’s classic answers that question:

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1\_165.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_165.html)

Roughly equal mass on all sides = roughly equal pull of gravity from all sides = weightless.

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**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841/3 "1999-11-19T00:06:00Z")

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## I’m glad Cecil answered the question and I’m sure he made it very clear in his inimitable fashion, but the question was answered by Isaac Newton a long time ago. You would be weightless.

“Vandelay!! Say Vandelay!!”

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841/4 "1999-11-19T13:38:00Z")

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Weightless? … isn’t that underestimating the gravity of the situation?

This one is too deep for me.

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 1999, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841/5 "1999-11-19T17:48:00Z")

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Dex- you answered that with your usual Savoirf- Air 🙂

Cartooniverse

" If you want to kiss the sky, you’d better learn how to kneel "

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**Author:** ![JMSaSU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@JMSaSU](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JMSaSU)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 1999, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gravity/4841/6 "1999-11-20T02:10:00Z")

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There is no such thing as gravity.  
The world just SUCKS.