ASAMPLE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS alchemical fusing of forces would be that a comet fleeing the Sun on the out-bound limb of a hyperbola, traveling an essentially straight line, would, if it happened to pass near a planet, be drawn towards it. The Sun was not an absolute monarch. It did not have any special God-given power. The comet did not have to respect its force more than the forces of mere planets – in fact, the comet could not even perceive these two influences as being separate, they'd already been converted to the universal currency of force, and fused into a single vector. Far from the Sun, close to the planet, the latter's influence would predominate, and the comet would change course smartly.