¶ Critical Proximity
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Critical Proximity:
“Though lines can’t go through the same point at the same time, sometimes they can get nearer or further away from one another. They can get into what I call critical proximity. Critical proximity would be, for instance, the relative positioning of the moon and the earth where in there is a mass attraction hook-up. If there is a mass takeover attraction, they operate thereafter as a universal joint. Either body is quite free to carry on all kinds of individual motions and transformations by itself, such as revolving and precessing. But they cannot escape their critical proximity to one another as they orbit together around the sun with which they are jointly in critical proximity.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, p. 53, Jun’66
- CARBONDALE DRAFT IV,31,32.
