Rainbow & Parabola (was NP)
Dave Monroe
monropolitan at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 24 17:28:49 CDT 2004
More or less, yes ...
--- "Joseph S. Barrera III" <joe at barrera.org> wrote:
> Gravity's rainbow *is* the same shape as an optical
> rainbow -- a circle -- if the projectile has the
> appropriate initial velocity.
But here ...
> Earth's orbit around the Sun is a circular gravity's
> rainbow.
Well, no, I'll let the Wonder from Down Under remind
us all of Kepler's Laws et al. here. Nonetheless,
poetic license, figures of speech, tropes, whatever ...
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