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This is a subtle and slightly tricky thing to explain. When you have an object that you'd say is heavy, that means two things. One is that it has a lot of "mass," which is a way of saying that it's hard to get it to start moving from rest. This is true even in the absence of gravity. For ... (Full article: 391 words)
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