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1) That the ''direction'' of the streams of particles producing gravity is such that an ''equal'' number of particles are moving in ''all'' directi ...hus all the arbitrary conditions of Le Sage's theory (and all the facts of gravity) would follow as inevitable deductions from the simple fundamental admissio ...

| title = [[../|The Bearing of the Kinetic Theory of Gravitation on the Phenomena of "Cohesion" and "Chemical Action," |title=The Bearing of the Kinetic Theory of Gravitation on the Phenomena of "Cohesion" and "Chemical Action," ...

...ish followers of Newton, were commonly supposed to mean the recognition of gravity as a force acting simply at a distance without mediation of intervening mat ...hical [65] matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but ...

...those who favor momentum for mechanics calculations and to those who favor kinetic energy. '''4.''' Let us proceed to the case of uniform gravity or, more generally, to the case in which a moving particle is acted upon by ...

...ey derived the conservation law from their laws of motion. However, since kinetic energy is conserved only for perfectly elastic bodies, that reinforced them ''Momentum is conserved only in special cases, and kinetic energy is conserved only for certain types of bodies.'' Neither one repres ...

...s of the conservation of energy and of matter were as yet unknown, and the kinetic theory of gases was quite beyond the scientific horizon. Hence it is a matt ...tless atoms coming from and going to infinity, to the dissipation of their kinetic energy into heat upon impact with solids-this latter class of objections se ...