if the earth was the only object in the universe and I was 10 billion light years away from it floating freely in space would I accelerate towards it until I reached the speed of light?
No, but your velocity would be almost the escape velocity of Earth, when you hit Earth.
Maybe not
I don't know
>>9143537
It's at this point when people can't solve easy as fuck mechanics problem like this that we know that elementary physics education failed.
No, you would hit earth at close to the escape velocity
You would rotate 360 degrees and gravitate away
Can you repeat the question?
>>9143587
This
>>9143587
why would you not accelerate beyond escape velocity?
>>9143537
Assuming accelerating expansion rate same like that of our universe today, gravity field would never propagate to you.
>>9143937
Why can you escape with anything faster than the escape velocity? The Earth is only pulling so hard.