19th June 2005, 12:12 AM
One that is or is not falling? That makes all the difference in the world. As I've said, if the elevator is falling with you in it, you are effectively weightless.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)