¶ Resultant
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Resultant:
“Now, up to the speed of light measurement, engineers spoke of every action as having a reaction and it was thought by the engineers-- because the public didn’t understand-- that every action had a reaction. Little man is so small, and Earth is so big, he doesn’t realize that when he steps this way, he’s pushing the Earth the other way. But you can feel it in an automobile when it accelerates rapidly, shoving the pebbles in the opposite direction. Now with the speed of light measurements, we discover while the speed of light is very great, say 700 million miles an hour. . . While, That’s very fast it is very slow in contrast to no time at all. And the engineers have not updated their thinking since the speed of light. They hadn’t realized the speed of light had anything to do with their action and reaction. But because there is now no instantaneity, no simultaneity, there is always some energy lag, and time is involved here. Therefore every action not only has a reaction but it has its resultant, and the resultant and the reaction are not the same. So we now realize that every energy event is characterized not only by a reaction but also by a resultant.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at SIMS, U.Tass, Amherst 22 July '71, pp 19-20
