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Originally Posted by Homeslice
Why wouldn't you? Anytime something causes you to accelerate, you're going to feel it.
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It's hard to demostrate without pictures but we all know F=ma which means the net force is equal to an objects mass times acceleration (acceleration is change in velocity over change in time). A more accurate way to put it is a=Fnet/m.
First off all of this is relative to Felix and not us. To us he is accelerating at roughly -(9.8m/s)/s. To felix though, it's a different story. Think of watching a man standing on a train going 30mph. To the man on the train, he's standing still. To you looking at him on the train, he's going 30mph.
To put it simply, if you skydive, you feel the free fall feeling because you have air molecules pushing against you and you are pushing against air molecules. The force your exert on the air molecules is greater than what they exert on you so you accelerate and you feel it.
For Felix, he isn't pushing against any air molecules and there aren't any air molecules pushing against him. The net force relative to him is practically 0. a=Fnet/m=0/m=0. Relative to Felix he doesn't notice acceleration.