Timeline for Combined gravitational field of two objects, and its effect on one of the objects?
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| Sep 8, 2019 at 13:29 | comment | added | user4552 | @JerrySchirmer: That should be an answer. | |
| May 9, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | And if your next question is "what about Newton's third law?", the point is that Newton's third law is a special case of the law of conservation of momentum, and radiation carries momentum, which is still conserved. | |
| May 9, 2019 at 21:22 | comment | added | Zo the Relativist | In the case of radiating objects, they can exert forces on themselves. If you believe that radiation carries energy, in fact, they HAVE to exert forces on themselves, since losing energy to radiation will cause acceleration. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 4:54 | comment | added | Johnathan Gross | This is general relativity related because the answer is different for general relativity and Newtonian gravity. Newtonian gravity allows superposition, but general relativity does not. It is trivial to calculate the gravitational field of two or three point charges in Newtonian gravity (not so trivial to calculate motion in that field), but not so in general relativity. | |
| Aug 23, 2017 at 3:09 | history | answered | Sal Elder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |