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Force Lines: Omnidirectional Lines of Force:
"I was told in school about Galileo’s parallelogram of forces. It was drawn on a plane where you saw one body running at a certain velocity in a given direction. You multiplied its weight times its velocity and that made the length of the line; we called such a force line a vector. Then we had another body which was on collision course with the first moving body, which we had vectored. And you took the second moving body’s weight times its velocity and that was the length of the second line or vector. And the second body also was going in a unique and discretely identified compass direction. You had these two moving bodies come together and then you made two other lines parallel to the first set of two vectorial lines and they made a parallelogram with the first two vectors.
Next you made a long diagonal in that parallelogram from the point of collision to its diagonally opposite corner. Then you extended the long diagonal outwardly from the parallelogram from the point of collision, extending this line to a length equal to the diagonal"
