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Falling and weightlessness are identical.

Weightlessness only feels weird because we rarely feel it.

If you were suddenly in empty space (e.g. in an area with zero intrinsic acceleration), you would feel like you are falling.

Because the feeling of falling is actually the feeling of NOT having the constant gravity (i.e. acceleration) you're used to.

If you were born in weightlessness, gravity would be the strange feeling (cue Bane saying, "you only adopted weightlessness, I was born in it").



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