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Water Stream from a Horizontal Surface
If water was projected from a flat surface where gravity was equal all over the surface. What would happen when the water fell in on itself? The water is in a continuous stream and is perfectly ...
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Dirichlet's work on gravity in non-Euclidean space?
In the book The Norton History of Astronomy and Cosmology by the late John North I have found the following statement (page 514):
"The German mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet studied the law of ...
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Is Dyson Sphere a stable construction?
Suppose that a star is encompassed by a Dyson Sphere. Do we need a position control system for the Dyson Sphere to keep its origin always aligned with the center of the star? Will it stay aligned ...
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Gravitation is not force?
Einstein said that gravity can be looked at as curvature in space- time and not as a force that is acting between bodies. (Actually what Einstein said was that gravity was curvature in space-time and ...
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Why is there a search for an exchange particle for gravity?
Here's a question on something I've been wondering about for quite some time. (I am not a physicist.)
If I understand correctly, according to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, mass results in ...
