Aristotle Was Wrong—Very Wrong—But People Still Love Him Centuries-old ideas about force and motion have an intuitive appeal that is enduring but oh-so-incorrect, as these simple experiments show.

Aristotle's Ideas About Falling Objects Aristotle said that there are 4 elements: Earth, Wind, Water, Fire.

Falling Objects Let’s start with what happens to an object as it falls. In the third century BC, Aristotle asserted that a massive object will fall faster than a low-mass one. Sounds reasonable ...

This is the story of a hammer, a feather, the Apollo 15 mission, and the answers to humanity’s oldest questions about how stuff falls.

Scientists Test How Objects Fall in Space In the most precise experiment to date, researchers confirm a principle of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity ...

Unlike the fly debacle, the falling objects are understandable. Aristotle believed that things fell at a constant speed, not accelerating, and that lighter objects fell more slowly than heavier ones.

According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1,000 years up until Galileo's time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that ...

Falling objects in orbit show Einstein was right — again An experiment provides the most precise confirmation yet of a key tenet of general relativity ...