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How to define "floating freely" is not easy to define. The potential energy surface of gravitation extends in 1/r wgich makes it a long range interaction. So if the earth attraction is small enough that you want to neglect it, you may still be trapped in the sun potential well. And if you can escape the sun attraction you are still prisoner of the galaxy. There is no 0 gravity, but there is various levels of neglecta…
> potential energy surface of gravitation extends in 1/r What does this mean? Gravity falloff is 1/r^2 right?
GP may have used superscript that got stripped, here's a test with normal numbers followed by the superscript version : 0⁰ 1¹ 2²