¶ Action-reaction-resultant
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Action-reaction-resultant:
“Engineers have been proud of pointing out that the difference between engineers and lay society is that engineers know that every action has its reaction and that lay society thinks only of the actions. Before the speed of light was measured, light seemed, to all humanity, to be instantaneous. Since we now know experientially that neither light nor any other phenomenon is instantaneous, we may conclude that an action and the vectors it creates are neither simultaneously occurring nor instantaneous. Because vectors have discrete length, whose dimension represents the energy mass multiplied by its velocity, every action vector has two terminals-- a ‘beginning’ and an ‘ending’ at the end of its noninstantaneous action. The beginnings and the endings are nonsimultaneously occurring. Therefore the ‘ending’ terminal of an action’s vector occurs later than its ‘beginning.’ Therefore, every action must have a reaction vector at its ‘beginning’ terminal and a resultant vector at its ‘ending’ terminal. The reaction vectors and the resultant vectors are never angled at 180 degrees to the action vectors. They are always angled precessionally at angles other than 180 degrees.”
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