By Mike Kirwan Venice
There appears to be some argument over a feather, a hammer and gravity. Gravity makes objects fall at the same speed, though the feather and the hammer fall at different speeds due to the feather being affected by the air. On the moon, they would fall at the same rate, or in any vacuum... except in an intellectual or moral vacuum. So the experiment would not work in the Oval Office.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 14, 2007. Read the original PDF.