Timeline for What happens with the force of gravity when the distance between two objects is 0?
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| Aug 18, 2018 at 4:42 | history | edited | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2013 at 13:57 | comment | added | Michael | It's a reference to the hippie movement, predominant in the late 1960s United States, and the psychedelic art that was part of it. :) | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 5:15 | comment | added | Michael | My supervisor tells me that particle physicists in the 60s were hippies. This is like an homage to that esteemed generation. | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 4:27 | history | edited | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 3:59 | comment | added | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | @ManuelHerrera: The same principle holds. If there are two objects (let's say point particles), then outside the system, again, they can be treated as one point particle, but inside, it is different let me edit my post /to answer these new (or old, whatever) questions of yours. It may take a while. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 16:29 | comment | added | Manuel Herrera | thankyou, that answers the first set of questions, but not all. how do we differentiate betwee 2 objects not in a vacuum? because as you said, going inside the earth would decrease M and gravity acts in different directions, that means that gravity force is being exerted by the portions of earth we have 'passed' on our way to the center. Then is it correct to say gravity acts on the object itself(earth in this example)? | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 9:18 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | "A picture explains this well" ... I'm just glad you didn't also use MS Paint for the equations. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 5:38 | history | answered | Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |