Predicting Motion

Question

Fredo’s spaceship takes him to the very edge of known space. There, gravity has no effect at all. Fredo takes a baseball and tosses it into space. What will most likely happen to the ball?

It will not move at all.
It will return to Fredo’s spaceship.
It will eventually stop moving.
It will continue moving in a straight line.

Answer 1

In the scenario described, where Fredo tosses a baseball in a region of space where gravity has no effect, the most likely outcome is that it will continue moving in a straight line.

This is in accordance with Newton's first law of motion, which states that an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. In the absence of gravitational forces or other influences, the baseball will maintain its trajectory indefinitely.