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Vector addition perfectly dictates actual travel paths

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If you try walking perfectly straight across a moving treadmill, you will quickly find yourself traveling diagonally. Vectors ensure that directional forces stack on top of one another. Your forward push combined with a sideways push results in a completely compromised slant. The universe merges competing directions into a single mathematical compromise.

Vector addition perfectly dictates actual travel paths
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