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Originally Posted by Homeslice
If Felix has said something about it, feel free to post it. I don't read every single news article.
All I know is that everything with mass has intertia. Including the organs inside your body. So if something grabs you and pulls you in one direction, your organs are initially going to try to remain where they are. You're telling me you wouldn't feel that?
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You're right except that in free fall in a vacuum where you have absolutely no forces acting on your at all the molecules in your body are going to fall at the same rate as yoru space suit or as if you were made out of solid steel. Everything falls at the same rate in a vacuum. If for some magical reason your stomach fell at say 9.80 meters per second per second and the rest of your body fell at 9.81 meters per second per second then you'd feel your stomach because your stomach would exert a force against your nerves which are trying to travel at a different velocity.
When you jump out of an airplane you are immediately subject to the affects of air resistance and pressure, like it or not. So in a sense, inside your body your guts want to fall at 9.81m/ss but due to air resistance you are actually falling at 9.70m/ss. Because of that you have a net Force and no matter how small a force, something with mass will experience acceleration.