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In the time that it takes a whiteboard marker of mass 12 grams to fall 1 meter down to the Earth of mass 6 × 10 kg, 24 (a) how far does the earth move up towards the whiteboard marker? Derive your answer from Newton’s laws, and state when you are using which law. (b) Given that the smallest scale we have measured to date is 0.00000000000000000001 meters = 10 -20 m, can we measure this distance from part (a) yet? (c) Therefore, is part (a) a scientific question? A “scientific question” has to be measurable or falsifiable “in principle” (not necessarily in practice according to current technology).