'Weight' is basically our response to the pull of gravity when we are resisting it. You could still prove the existence of gravity in the elevator (though you could not prove the existence of the gravity from the earth you're about to smash into, but that's a different story). I said the contents would become weightless, which is not the same thing. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

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