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Reading the books for the first time. How unreasonable is my gripe about thrust "gravity"? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by ech@lemmy.ca to c/theexpanse@lemmy.world

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With the show being one of my favorites, I'm happy to say that I'm really enjoying the novels as well. That said, it keeps bugging me when the term "thrust gravity" is always used to describe something that's explicitly Newton's 3rd law - ie, not gravity. I'm probably not understanding something, but it bugs me to see a series that makes a point to be at least reasonably scientific to use a term that seems so wrong.

Side note: How come the third law missed out on natural feeling shorthand? 1st - inertia. 2nd - f=ma. 3rd - ???. Feels like something got overlooked there.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it meant to be scientific? Or is it meant to quickly communicate a concept in a sci-fi?

[–] ech@lemmy.ca -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why can't it be both?

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Depends what the author cares about, I guess?