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DroneBettertoday at 3:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

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...


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naklitechietoday at 5:04 AM

This deserves a simulator

lhd1today at 4:05 AM

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...