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Interference:
"As the magnitudes of energy vectors are products of the mass multiplied by the velocity, the velocity may be high and the mass small, or vice versa, and the vector remains the same length or magnitude.
"A little body moving at sufficient velocity could have the same effect upon another body with which it interferes as could a big body moving at a slower rate. With these vectorial variables in mind, we see that there are three fundamental preconditions of the interference vectors where one is either larger, the same, or smaller in energy magnitude than the other.
“There are also four fundamentally unique patterns of the resultants of interferences. The first, which is reflection, results from a relatively direct impact and a rebound at an acute angle. The second, which is refraction, results from a glancing impact and an obtuse angle of deflection. The third is a smash-up which results in several parts of one or the other interfering bodies going away from one another in a plurality of angular directions. The fourth is a critical proximity, an attractive link-up such as that between Earth and Moon.”
¶ Citations
- NASA Speech, pp.50-51, Jun’66
