zodiac3 Jan 2006

No. The rule I gave takes time into consideration. I think you misread it. The trick was "calculable rate" - specifically 9.8 meters/second^2 at sea level at a certain temperature. The speed doesn't stay the same. After one second, the object's falling 9.8 m/s; after 2 seconds, the object's falling 19.6 m/s, and so forth. After one half-second, it's falling at a speed proportional to 9.8m/s^2.

The quantum level is a trump card and straw man. Nobody knows for sure what happens at the quantum level, if there is such a thing. No logician or mathematician claims to. That's why, for everyone except poets, "rules" or "laws" of physics are given as long strings of conditions (see my gravity rule above) with plenty of room for as-yet unobserved conditions. That's why we're right and poets aren't.