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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
- Subject: Re: Accellerating Spaceship (yet another bird in a plane)
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:50:34 GMT
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- In <1992Dec30.113719.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov> draper@sscvx1.ssc.gov writes:
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- >If there is no distinction between inertial and
- >gravitational mass, then the situation would be almost exactly like classical
- >electrostatics: unlike masses would attract and like masses would repel,
-
- I'm sure that isn't what you meant to say. If two like (positive) masses
- repelled, gravity would push us all off the face of the Earth. What you
- probably meant was "opposite to classical electrostatics."
-
- However, that is not the way Forward defined it. As I stated before,
- his negative matter has negative gravity, which repels all other matter
- (negative or positive). Positive matter, of course, has positive gravity.
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