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Article: <5grlnj$s8d@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: 12th Planet - any photos ?
Date: 20 Mar 1997 15:39:31 GMT
In article <5gillt$n00@news.ccit.arizona.edu> Jim Scotti writes:
>>> Newton's law describing uniform motion in a straight
>>> line applies for the case of no external force applied.
>>> "JNTF" <sdonnell@jntf.osd.mil>
>>> S.P. Donnell
>>> Center For Research Support
>>> Falcon AFB, CO
>
>> (Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
>> Thank you for confirming that your laws of motion state
>> that an object moves in a straight line unless an external
>> force is applied. ... There is a line between the Sun and
>> this long period comet. It should draw the comet DIRECTLY
>> BACK to the Sun, not move it sideways across the heavens
>> (End ZetaTalk[TM])
>
> Yup, the force of gravity acts on the comet directly on a line
> between it and the sun, but the comets momentum carries it
> around the sun.
> jscotti@LPL.Arizona.EDU (Jim Scotti)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
I know it's painful, and like the two north poles of a magnet, the more you try to place them
together, the more the resist, but YOU MUST put your laws together. These are the laws
you teach your young! If they question these contradictions, you PUNISH THEM with bad
grades and scathing remarks! Yet you can't put them together in one argument, on one page,
in one breath, as they DO NOT FIT TOGETHER!
If the comet moves in a straight line unless a force is applied, then WHAT is that force?
Inertia carries if FORWARD, not sideways. Please do better than putting your head in the
sand, Jim. You've got youngsters in the readership, and they'll looking to your as a leader.
At least be honest and SAY these are contradictory laws, but you think that the Universe
should be obliged to follow them anyway, just to make the Newton huggers happy.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])