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Old 29-April-2008, 10:41 PM
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Let me put in a brief word to support grav: it really is true that, if you use the Newtonian formula for gravitational force, and integrate over a flat disk, the force at the edge of the disk will be infinite.

Yes, it's not realistic, because real distributions of mass aren't infinitely thin. But it's how the math works out.

Keep up the good work, grav!
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