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Re: anonymous says -
"This force will elongate Mr. Schmoe until he is merely a long "spaghetti-string" of atoms/particles." ( Far out !!)
"Gravity is indeed acting on all particles of a human subject but not equally." (I didn't say equally, I said simultaneously.)
"If we were able to build many (seriously, I mean a LOT of) hypothetical atomic rockets that could propel each individual atom of a human subject"
(This makes no sense whatsoever - is this a new thought experiment?? Gravity simply exerts its force on each sub atomic particle simultaneously. Normally all the atoms in the body are falling in unison, there is no stress so there is no weight sensation, the body is weightless. Only in very special conditions such as when the comet broke up and crashed into Jupiter several years ago did gravity's force cause enough stress to break up the comet.)
"Inertia = the RESISTANCE to acceleration of an object due to its mass." (In other words - inertia requires a force be exerted to accelerate the mass!)
Don Hamilton