Mythbusters: Galileo Edition

You know that famous story about Galileo dropping two balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and proving they’d hit the ground at the same time?
Well, in 1976, a group of physicists at East Carolina University actually tried it. One ball was heavy, one was light. Guess what? The heavy one won the race. By a lot. The researchers even suspect Galileo never actually did the experiment himself 😂😅

Turns out, Galileo’s law only works in a vacuum. On Earth? Air resistance is the party crasher.

…Anyway it might just be a Renaissance-era science myth that stuck around because it sounds so cool.