Losing Weight by Relocating

In Albert Einstein’s <a href="https://www.britannica.com/science/general-relativity" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">General Theory of Relativity</a>, the Earth’s gravitational acceleration toward the floor we stand on, g, is indistinguishable from what we would feel if the floor was pushed against our feet by a rocket. And if the rocket happened to accelerate away from our feet and towards Earth from space, then the Earth’s gravity would be negated. In other words, one can reduce the strength of gravity by an opposite acceleration. This might sound hypothetical, but this phenomenon has measurable consequences in our daily life. For example, the centrifugal acceleration from the Earth’s rotation pushes us outwards and counteracts Earth’s gravitational pull. The value of g at the equator is 9.780 meters per second squared, smaller than the value of g at the poles — which is 9.832 meters per second squared. The centrifugal force at the equator accounts for about two-thirds of the difference in g between the equator and the poles. The rest of the difference is due to the oblateness of Earth. The change in the net gravitational acceleration g reduces the weight of the human body by <a href="https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Meteorology_and_Climate_Science/Book%3A_Fundamentals_of_Atmospheric_Science_(Brune)/10%3A_Dynamics_-_Forces/10.05%3A_Effects_of_Earth%E2%80%99s_Rotation-_Apparent_Forces" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">0.53%</a> near the equator compared to the poles. Not a bad approach for losing half a pound just by changing your residency from Greenland to Kenya. <a href="https://avi-loeb.medium.com/losing-weight-by-relocating-532ec028f8d5">Website</a>