stackyFACTSPhysics sometimes looks like terrible CGI. If you hold a long stretched spring by the top and let go, the bottom section will literally hover in mid-air completely motionless. It waits until the top crashes down into it because the upward tension perfectly cancels out gravity until the collapse is complete.
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