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re: Mass & Energy, Planet size, etc.
Michael Gmirkin — (archived)

Agreed, probably wouldn't work for large-scale systems like planets, the sun. Those would probably be gross over-generalizations on my part. I guess I was just thinking in terms of really oversimplified systems, just in terms of geometric relations of a way-overidealized "sphere of energy" and how mass would be affected if it was compressed or expanded, and how it might interact with other spheres of energy in a very simple and overgeneralized way. Like two beach balls hitting each other or something along that line. Obviously as you get lots of beach balls all interacting they do much more complex things in the grander structure of things. I guess I was just wondering if no an extremely basic level that geometric relationship might be semi-close to how stuff works... Or even at the smallest level (like, the size of an electron or a photon) is there all sorts of harmonic stuff going on there too? I know, it would be too easy if everythign were just nice simple spheres, deformations and "energy pressure," or something. Obviously if there's lots of tiny particles interacting all the time, they'd probably never be perfectly spherical, and they'd probably always be deformed in some way as they interact over distances (atomic, or stellar). So, probably everything is in flux all the time, more like an ideal fluid, really. But we won't go into magnetohydrodynamics. Not ready to wrap my head around any of that yet. ;o) Too late at night for that, anyway.

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