the science of studying or controlling gravity
And if they got off of their planets, they’d be using gravitics.
After we straightened out on the road, Elmer began to tell me about gravitics.
Our power took a beating, as far as we are from it, and we know what kind of power it takes to do anything with the gravitics on Telfu.
Seems that gravitics is the key to everything. It would lead to the addition of one more item to the Unified Field—what we now call psychic energy, or ‘psionics’.
Ah, the things that engineers had to cope with, in the days before the Jukes corporation did its breakthrough work with gravitics.
antedating 1944
Malcolm Jameson, Tricky Tonnage
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