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Sure, it feels similar, but it still doesn't seem appropriate to conflate the two. If someone said airplanes use "anti gravity" to fly, that'd blatantly incorrect, no? It doesn't help that the series focuses on actual gravity and it's consequences constantly, which just shines a spotlight in this particular incongruence (for me, at least).
Not just feels similar; any experiment conducted would yield identical results assuming the source of thrust is perfectly constant without variations.
But rather than continuing to discuss the ways in which you dislike "thrust gravity," is there a term you would find preferable instead?
Moderately misleading terms is pretty common in real science and technology though. For example, particle spin has nothing to do with actual rotation and instead just has properties that is similar to objects with rotation. So getting obsessively hung up on semantics would be a very frustrating activity even in actual scientific literature.
This is the second time you've suggested I'm mentally unwell for having a minor gripe. The rest of your comment is on topic, but I'm not continuing to engage in that sort of discussion. If you don't want to have a conversation about the topic at hand, feel free to stop commenting. If you do, stop being so insulting.