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If a material made up of quasi-particles is massless when moving away from gravity at ground level, why is the distinction important?
My brain hung a bit in this statement. I suppose I incorrectly interpreted “nigh weightless” as “losing weight”, which is what everything does as it leaves a gravity well.
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