The following is a “slides and notes” version of a talk, written and presented to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Physics Students by Andrew E. Love Jr, a long-standing subscriber, and frequent contributor, to the larryniven-l mailing list.

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There's an old saying in the Smoke Ring.

Is it true? Why? Imagine yourself in the Smoke Ring with a jet pack at your command and think about the equations on the previous page:

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