Debunks / gravity-density

Gravity is fake - it's just density and buoyancy

Flat-earth claim
Gravity is fake - it's just density and buoyancy
S71-43788 (2 Aug 1971) - David Scott watches the hammer and feather fall on the Moon. NASA.

The claim

"There is no gravity. Things fall because they are denser than air, and light things float up - it's just density and buoyancy."

The reality

Density explains buoyancy in a fluid - why things float in water or air. It does not explain falling in a vacuum, where there is no air to provide buoyancy at all. The classic test was done on the Moon, which has no atmosphere: in 1971 astronaut David Scott dropped a hammer and a feather at the same time. They hit the ground at exactly the same instant, confirming Galileo: in a vacuum all objects fall at the same rate, whatever their mass or density.

The evidence

Apollo 15, 2 August 1971, broadcast live on TV: hammer and feather land simultaneously on the airless Moon. If 'density vs air' were the mechanism, the feather would have drifted. On Earth the same experiment needs a vacuum chamber - and gives the same result.

Sources

  1. Apollo 15 - the hammer and feather experiment [1]
  2. Image - NASA Image Library (S71-43788) [2]