THE PHYSICS OF ESCAPE VELOCITY

This would be as good a place as any for me to submit a candidate for a 4th principle of Motion. Have you ever wondered about WHY a NASA shuttle mission achieves orbit at precisely 11,180.6m/s, as opposed to some other velocity? (If not, tsk tsk.) Havent you ever wondered what is really going on when a rocket achieves that velocitywhat physical principles are at work to effect that marvelous transformation from Earth-object to Space-Object? Care to think along with me? First lets review what mans rocketry experience has taught him about getting up into orbit. Heres the basic, time-tested formula:

Fine. My question was

WHY???

I began wondering about the

competition between forcesthe Gravity trying to hold on to the rocket, and the rockets own thrust trying to extricate itself from Gravitys grip. Which led me to think about how the rockets kinetic energy represents potential or future repositioning of the rocket. Which led me to think about the force of Gravity in those same kind of termspotential or future repositioning. We know G pulls things toward Earths center of mass. And that this process is always obstructed / interrupted by Earths hard crust. So what if Earth and the rocket motors competed on even terms? What if the force of Earths Gravity could play itself out like the thrust of the rocket does? What would happen if you dropped the rocket down a theoretical vacuum tube running down through Earths center of mass? Heres what I came up with.

Sooooo if this is Good Math, then doesnt it give us a new insight into the Physics of Earth? Hmm the Terminal V of the dropped object would be 11,186.52 m/s, and the standard value for Escape V for a rocket is 11,180.6m/s.

Coincidence? I dont think so. I submit that its at least worth thinking about. Heres a new graphic slant on EscapeV:

Doesnt it make sense that the RELEVANCE of the rockets Escape V is that it represents a force which is equal to the force Earths Gravity would exert on the rocketover time-- if it were dropped down a vacuum tube toward Earths center (the length of Earths radius).

We know that our human senses work within limited ranges. We see only certain wave lengths of light, and hear only certain wave lengths of sound, and so on. Why couldnt a Gravity Field have something akin to senses? How about if a G Fields nature includes a gravitational wave length, proportional to the radius of the body which creates the G Field? This would mean that when the time-projected Kinetic Energy of the rocket exceeds the time-projected Gravitational acceleration of the same object over the time-projected travel of the same rocket down Earths radius, then it would be as if the rocket becomes invisible to Earths Gravity. One minute Earths G is maintaining its grip on the rocket, the next minute Earth has forgotten that it ever possessed the rocket in the first place. It is as if the rocket has gone stealth as far as Earth is concerned. Why not?

OK. Lets Review what weve previously articulated about the laws of motion inside a Gravitational field like Earth:

FIRST PRINCIPLE OF MOVEMENT: (INSIDE A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD)

MOVEMENT IS CAUSED BY THE APPLICATION OF LATERAL FORCE SUFFICIENT TO PERTURB THE SPHERICAL HARMONY OF AN OBJECT

SECOND PRINCIPLE OF MOVEMENT: (INSIDE A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD) WE CAN TELL WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE IN MOTION

THIRD PRINCIPLE OF MOVEMENT: NO FREE RIDES. (INSIDE A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD) ALL RELOCATION COSTS AN EXPENDITURE OF ENERGY.

Now then, shouldnt we seriously consider adding this one FOURTH PRINCIPLE OF MOVEMENT: THE 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD PRINCIPLES APPLY UNLESS AN OBJECT IS FORCEFULLY SEPARATED FROM THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD. SEPARATION OCCURS WHEN AN OBJECTS KINETIC ENERGY 1) OPPOSES THE PULL OF GRAVITY PERPINDICULARLY & 2) EXCEEDS THE MAGNITUDE OF THE POTENTIAL ENERGY OF THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL ?

Think about it.

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