He imagined connecting a heavy weight to a light one and dropping them together. Now Aristotle’s theory makes two contradictory predictions:1) The heavy weight should fall more slowly than normal, since the light weight now hinders it.2) The heavy weight should fall more quickly than normal, since the two connected weights now form one very heavy object.These can’t both be true, so Aristotle can’t be right. Instead the two weights must fall at the same rate.
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He imagined connecting a heavy weight to a light one and dropping them together. Now Aristotle’s theory makes two contradictory predictions:
1) The heavy weight should fall more slowly than normal, since the light weight now hinders it.
2) The heavy weight should fall more quickly than normal, since the two connected weights now form one very heavy object.
These can’t both be true, so Aristotle can’t be right. Instead the two weights must fall at the same rate.
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