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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...


Hence for all practical purposes, zero-dimensional cows are spherical.


This deserves a simulator


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...


Ah yes, indeed, the well-known point-cow approximation!


The point-cow is simply the zero-dimensional generalization of the spherical cow.




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