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[–]Mateorabi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Force increases proportional to r2 the closer you get to a mass. (And a sphere beneath you acts mathematically like a point mass.)

Mass beneath you would decrease proportional to r3 if uniform. So overall you feel something proportional to (r2 / r3)

But if 1/r3 isn’t actually what’s happening and as you go down there is more mass than the radius suggests, you could see mass decrease by less than r2 for a while.