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  • whiskyriot@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsk Science@lemmy.worldGravity field scaling?
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    1 year ago

    From my layman perspective, yes the measured gravity would be double it’s original value if measured from the same place.

    Gravity is an [edit: inverse squared] function, so it gets weaker at an exponential rate as you move away from the source. But even if it’s a value of 1.0 at Earth’s surface and .02 at some distant point from Earth, doubling Earth’s gravity would double both values to 2.0 and .04, respectively.