GR translation: across a clear skirmish-line from the Force

[Paul Mackin]

On 7/17/2012 2:39 PM, David Morris wrote:
> "She was at his elbow not ten seconds ago. They’d agreed beforehand to
> try and keep together. But there are two sorts of movement out here—as
> often as the chance displacements of strangers, across a clear
> skirmish-line from the Force, will bring together people who’ll remain
> that way for a time, in love that can even make the oppression seem a
> failure, so too love, here in the street, can be taken centrifugally
> apart again: faces seen for the last time here, words spoken idly,
> over your shoulder, taking for
> granted she’s there, already last words—"
>
> The "Force" pushes (and pulls) people together and apart.  Chance
> "displacements" (a scientific term) of people from point A to B.  So,
> yes, F=ma works perfectly.  And, it also works for a rocket.

Thanks, David and Mark, for pitching in toward an ongoing effort to 
restore Newton's Second Law some market share relative to the biggie.

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>
> David Morris
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Excuse me for resurrecting old business but I've come up with another explanation for the upper case F in force.
>>
>> Tired of THAT Second Law, there's another one, Newton's, most simply expressed (no calculus required) as F=ma, conventionally with upper case F.
>>
>> This kind of force isn't the force of gravity but a pushing kind of force like you have in crowds, drawing people together and spreading them apart, as mentioned in previous discussion.