That's called the "Cosmic Microwave Background". (CMB)
It was discovered in 1965, and its discoverers were awarded
the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
Sky diving involves free fall under gravity along with the drag due to air molecules pushing against the body slowing the rate of fall of a body. This is actually a significant amount of force. The drag force depends on the contact surface area and weight of the body. More the surface area in contact, more would be the drag. The sitting position of the skydiver would experience less drag than the chest down position. This is because of the less contact surface area of the body with the air molecules while in the former case. Since no two persons have identical body shape and weight, the rate of fall can be made nearly equal but not exactly equal. This is would be possible when they are having same body position.
Its physical weathering and physical weathering can be sometimes called mechanical weathering it includes the processes which break rocks apart changing their chemical composition.