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Because there are no contact forces acting on us. Gravity is the only acting on us.

A body experiences weightlessness when gravity is the only force acting on it.

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How do you put weightlessness in a sentence?

In space, there is no gravity and one would experience weightlessness.


A sentence using the word weightlessness?

In space, there is no gravity and one would experience weightlessness.


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