the earth attracts the Apple does the Apple attract the Earth if does
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Apple also attracts the earth. But earth can't move towards the Apple because the apple's size is so small, such that the magnitude of gravitational force of apple is much smaller than earth.
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Yes it does, according to Newton's first law. And the earth does indeed move towards the apple.
However, their movement is in inverse proportion of their masses. Since the earth is some 6e25 times the mass of the apple, its motion will indeed be tiny. For 1m of a falling apple, the earth will move something like 1e-25 m. For comparison, an electron has a radius of 1e-18m. So, it's one ten-millionth the radius of an electron. That's alltogether to little to worry about.
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