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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