Cartesian Inertia and Gravitation

by Rene Descartes Icon

3 minutes • 534 words

Superphysics Note

We totally overhaul this section to make it understandable without any slings analogy

Bodies that revolve always tend to move away from the centers that they revolve from. But what direction do the stars and heavens tend towards?

A body that ’tends’ towards some direction does not mean that there is a thought or desire inside the body that carries it there. Instead, it means that:

It is disposed to move there and
There is something preventing it.*

Superphysics Note

Here, Descartes must emphasize resistance because his system has no void.

‘Tend’ here means that the body is doing an effort to counteract such a resistance.

The body thus tends towards different directions at the same time *

Superphysics Note

In Superphysics, where the body actually goes is determined by a combination of the Probability Layer and the Aethereal Layer, where the latter is the layer of causes and the former is the layer of permission (for those causes to actually exist and be generated).

There are often diverse causes that act together on the same body.

These impede each other’s effect.
The same body can be thought of as tending in different directions at the same time.

The particles of the Earth tend to move away from its center when they are separated from the Earth.

When they are separated, they can be heavier or lighter.

They move towards the center when they are heavier. They are pushed towards the center by the external air-aether.
They move away from the center if they are lighter. [They go with the air aether going out of the Earth]

Gravity is caused by the air-aether particles.

The air-aether at A will tend towards G if it:

went with the rotation of the earth
had no opposition from the air-aether above it.*

Superphysics Note

This is energy bound and then released, going in a straight line

The air-aether at A will tend towards F if it:

went with the rotation of the earth
was opposed by the air-aether above it at Y.*

Superphysics Note

This is centrifugal force caused by confinement

The air-aether at A will tend towards E if it:

did not go with the rotation of the earth
- This makes it go staight to E instead of going to H or I
had no opposition from the air-aether above it.*

Superphysics Note

This is straight line movement without confinement

The air-aether [invisible spacetime particles] should be thought of as being the same as this stone R.

The gravitational territory of the Earth — In Cartesian Physics, the revolution of invisible spacetime particles around the Earth causes the tides and its oblate spheroid shape

Those that are at E tend of their own inclination towards P*.

Superphysics Note

This is flying off from the spin of the Earth

But the resistance of the other air-aether particles above them cause them to move along the circle ER.*

Superphysics Note

This is geosynchronous orbit and/or staying on the Earth

This resistance when alone would make them move towards M which is the near the center T.*

Superphysics Note

This was explained in Chapter 11

This is how they go towards the places that are directly opposite the center T of their gravitational territory.