>Bundle: 520
>Archive-Message-Number: 6378
>From: Glenn Myers [email removed]
>Subject: Grav vs. Contragrav
>
>I have a question concerning grav/contragrav vehicles. What has really changed
>from CT & MT to TNE. I always thought grav created a force which could be used
>for propulsion when it pushed around in a gravity well. The force became less
>effective as the gravity became less. In TNE, the contragrav appears tonegate
>up to 99% of gravitational forces. Does this cause any changes in how vehicles
>can move.
>
The way contra-gravity was explained in T:TNE always amused me. If 99% of of the gravity acting on the object was negated, wouldn't
the object fly off in a direction that corresponded to the orbital velocity of the planet, orbital velocity of the solar system
about the galaxy, and possibly the velocity of the galaxy through the universe...??? Keep in mind that without
gravity these objects wouldn't be running around in an elipse, or any path other then a straight line.
Anyone out there familiar with universal gravitional attraction?
- -EF