- Free-Fall-0.mp3
- Free-Fall-0.mp4
- Free-Fall-I.mp3
- Free-Fall-I.mp4
- Free-Fall-Reggae-I.mp3
- Free-Fall-Reggae-I.mp4
- Free-Fall-Reggae-II.mp3
- Free-Fall-Reggae-II.mp4
- Free-Fall-Unplugged-Underground-XI.mp3
- Free-Fall-Unplugged-Underground-XI.mp4
- Free-Fall-Unplugged.mp3
- Free-Fall-Unplugged.mp4
- Free-Fall-intro.mp3
[Intro]
[Instrumental, Guitar Solo]
Weightlessness
(Less ness)
[Verse 1]
Accelerating uniformly
(All… not just part of me)
Feels as if there’s no gravity
(Acting upon me)
[Bridge]
Weightlessness
(Less ness)
More or less
(Weightlessness)
[Chorus]
Can I change trajectory
(So that it doesn’t kill me)
After all…
(In free fall)
[Verse 2]
Too bad head for the ground
(Sorry to let you down)
Wait till the impact of gravity
(Hits me)
[Bridge]
Weightlessness
(Less ness)
More or less
(Weightlessness)
[Chorus]
Can I change trajectory
(So that it doesn’t kill me)
After all…
(In free fall)
[Bridge]
Weightlessness
(Less ness)
More or less
(Weightlessness)
[Chorus]
Can I change trajectory
(So that it doesn’t kill me)
After all…
(In free fall)
[Outro]
After all…
(In free fall)
It not the drop…
(It’s the)
[Break]
Stop!
A SCIENCE NOTE
When you are in free fall, you do not feel the effects of gravity because you and the object you’re falling with (including your body) are accelerating at the same rate. This state is known as “weightlessness” or “microgravity.”
Here’s the reasoning:
- Gravitational Acceleration: Gravity pulls everything toward the Earth at the same acceleration, which is approximately 9.8 meters per second squared (m/s²) near the Earth’s surface (32 feet per second per second).
- Free Fall: When you’re in free fall, you and your surroundings are all accelerating toward the Earth at this same rate. There’s no force pushing against you (such as the ground or a seat), so you don’t feel your weight. In other words, you and everything around you are “falling” together at the same rate, so there is no relative motion to make you feel the force of gravity.
- Lack of Contact Force: On the ground, you feel the normal force from the surface you’re standing on, which counteracts the force of gravity, creating the sensation of weight. In free fall, since you’re not in contact with any surface, there’s no normal force, so you experience what is effectively “weightlessness.”
In essence, you still experience gravity, but you don’t feel it as a force because everything is accelerating uniformly. This is why astronauts experience weightlessness while orbiting Earth—they are in a state of continuous free fall, but because their velocity is also tangential to the Earth’s surface, they do not hit the ground.