I'm gonna continue to argue with danielost here. keep the other boards from being gunked up by nonsense.
actually it does apply to all space after all sol is in orbit around the center of the galaxy right
no, first of all because thats not "falling", falling implies something more than being tugged slightly by a very far off distant force.
secondly its really not the center of the galaxy that the sun is orbiting, its more swept up by the collective gravity of interstellar dust and other solar systems. so thats not really an orbit.
and even if you were to define that as an orbit, you have massive intergalacticcluster areas that are not in the orbit of anything at all.
you dont even need an explanation or math to explain this, its freaking simple: falling only applies at the range in which you have a discernable acceleration or terminal velocity due to a single source of gravity rather than an amalgamation of others. space does not fit that criteria.
