1) The earths gravity is pulling on you, Are you pulling on the earth Explain your reasoning with evidence.

2) Gravity is a force of attraction between objects based on their mass and their distance apart. Why aren't other objects, like your pencil, being pulled towards you? Explain your reasoning

Gravity is a force of attraction between objects based on their mass and their distance apart. Why aren't other objects, like your pencil, being pulled towards you? Explain your reasoning

1). Gravity always occurs as a pair of equal forces. I am pulling on the

Earth with a force equal to the force with which the Earth is pulling on me.

In other words, my weight on Earth is equal to the Earth's weight on me.

I have no observational evidence of this, but Newton tells me that it is so,

and assuming it makes Physics problems work.

Wait! Yes, I DO have observational evidence!

I can turn the bathroom scale upside-down, with the stepping surface

on the floor and me standing on the floor surface of the scale. I can also

place a tiny mirror on the floor, in which I can read the numbers. When I

then climb onto the bottom surface of the scale, the scale is measuring the

Earth's weight on ME, and I read the number in the tiny mirror. I recognize

it to be exactly equal to the number I read when the scale is right-side-up and

measuring MY weight on the Earth.

Newton didn't have a bathroom scale. But now, with better technology, we can

make measurements that he never could make, and our modern measurements

bear out his prediction. Newton is vindicated! Sadly, he did not live to see this.

2). Other objects, like my pencil, as well as other people, ARE being

pulled toward me, and me toward them. But since the Earth's mass is

about 66 thousand-billion-billion times as much as MY mass, the

gravitational force of attraction toward the Earth is somewhat more

noticeable than the force of attraction toward me.