It's shit like this getting over 134 upvotes that blows my mind.

I'm not even going to argue with you because I know you're either a massive troll, or an unfortunate moron. Either way, you are not worth the time explaining physics to. If I asked you why you feel heavier in an elevator going up and lighter on an elevator going down, you'd probably answer with something stupid about invisible clowns or something.

I just wish more people read books from scientists like Carl Sagan.

Here's one of my favorite excerpts from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."