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[–] scratchee@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

I guess the original claim works if you imagine it along a specific axis only (1 dimensionally) in that perspective you either fall quickly then leave slowly or fall slowly and leave quickly, matching up to a change in velocity along that axis.

But yeah, I wouldn’t have explained it that way.