¶ Precession
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There are no straight lines. Nobody has ever thrown a straight ball. Everything is always moving in the direction of least resistance. That is one thing about the relation of all the forces. A body in motion affecting another body in motion . . . the effect is always precession. When the top is in motion and you in motion touch it, then the result is precession. Now inasmuch as the whole Universe is in motion, all the parts affecting each other are always precessing each other. Precession is the most predominant. You might say the first law of motion is precession. You could say that the first law of motion, if it had been properly written, was that all the Universe is continually in motion and all the other affecting it in various degrees: the effect is always precession.
