Reviving Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment for modern physics
Originally Published 2 years ago — by The Conversation
Galileo Galilei's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, a classic thought experiment in dynamics, demonstrated that objects of different masses fall with the same acceleration due to the Earth's action force. However, when sliding on a smooth table, objects of different masses have different accelerations due to the fundamental forces being different. In modern mechanics, the concept of force has evolved to view it as an action force field that radiates outward from its source, with the magnitude depending only on the mass of the object itself. This reinterprets Galileo's experiment and other interactions, providing a deeper understanding of the nature of reality.
