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DroneBetter
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Higher Multipoles of the Cow
for simulating gravity in particular you can do one better, since a sphere is in turn gravitationally indistinguishable from a point mass due to the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem#Force_on_a_point...
classified
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Hence for all practical purposes, zero-dimensional cows are spherical.
naklitechie
33 days ago
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This deserves a simulator
lhd1
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and you can do one better than that - Birkhoff's theorem, the relativistic analogue of the shell theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkhoff%27s_theorem_(relativi...
setopt
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Ah yes, indeed, the well-known point-cow approximation!
Sharlin
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The point-cow is simply the zero-dimensional generalization of the spherical cow.
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