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If the moon doesn't fall because of the principle that at every point the moon goes to it is pulled up by other points of the earth so why don't we humans also get attracted to earth in such a way that we move in circular motion?

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We are on th susurface of the earth .when earth rotataes ,we also rotates .
hence we are also rotating ,since this rotation is relative(with respect to earth) , we can feel this
We also know that gravitational force is proportional to mass
So since mass of moon is much greater than human,the force with which we will be pulled is very small


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