Hey guys, not sure if this one's been done already..
Why is it that a sky diver falls slower once his parachute is deployed? If the FES theory on gravity were true then the speed of the fall would be no different to as if he were just free falling due to the earth beneath him moving upward at a constant speed.
The reason why parachutes work is because they fight the force of gravity using the density of our atmosphere which is catches (thus it's mushroom design) to slowly bring the sky diver to earth.
Maybe I'm missing something and haven't overlooked this properly from a FES point of view.
PS. I haven't looked over the FAQ fully.
The air gets pushed up along with the ground. If you can't understand that fact that RE gravity and FE upwards acceleration cause the exact same observations*, then you aren't understanding it properly.
*Aside from differences in gravitational pull at poles and equator. This is one thing FE is yet to explain.
Please do not forget that pesky little word: "locally".
What you are saying is that acceleration is not distinguishable from gravitation
locally, which is part of the Theory of Relativity.
If people understood this "locally" issue... well, we would not even have this forum.