- A pebble skips over the surface of a pond; its ripple impacts an extremely large surface
- A big stone sinks straight to the bottom of the pond; its impact is nothing
- Moving a large piece of furniture using little force by adding a piece of cardboard beneath the front bottom of the furniture. Cardboard in alignment with the floor diffuses the friction of the heavy furniture.
Space itself is like the big pond of water.
- Large items using a lot of force punch right through it rather than small items skipping along the surface (having a larger ripple effect).
- A diffusion plate aligned with the direction of travel can help to reduce friction and move objects with a trivial fraction of the force used to break through our atmospheric boundaries.
Hypothesis (?)
- The force needed to arrive in space is all the force one needs to traverse it.
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