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where does the earth fall if gravity comes?
If it wasn’t for the Earth’s gravity, we’d all float off into space. So don’t panic when I tell you that you’re constantly falling towards the Earth at an accelerating rate of 9.8 meters/second2. Fortunately, you’re also standing on the Earth, so that’s keeping you from falling.





Gravity comes from mass. The more mass an object has, the more gravity it will exert on objects around it. The amount of gravity that you experience falls off quickly over distance. So, the force of gravity that you feel on the surface of the Earth is much different from what you would experience at the distance of the Moon, or further. 9.8 m/s2 is the gravity close to the surface.


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