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The path everything takes once it stops asking permission and starts obeying physics.
means The curved path an object follows as it moves through space, especially under the influence of forces like gravity — or, by extension, the course of anything developing over time.
from From Latin trajectus, the past participle of traicere, 'to throw across,' built from trans- ('across') plus jacere ('to throw') — the same jacere that launches words like 'project' and 'eject.' So a trajectory is literally the line traced by something thrown across space, a notion that took mathematical flight in the 17th century as scientists started plotting where hurled and falling things actually go.
- shape
- Gravity bends every thrown thing into a parabola
- escape
- Reach 25,000 mph and Earth lets you go
- origin
- From Latin for thrown across
- prediction
- Newton's math aims cannons and lands rovers alike
- chaos
- Tiny start changes can wreck distant outcomes
apollo 13 moon trajectory — spacecraft's unplanned curved path around the moon after oxygen tank explosion in 1970
elon musk's career trajectory — progression from zip2 to x.com to paypal to tesla to spacex, documented 1995-present