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Originally Posted by StupendousMan
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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Thank you, Stupendousman. I was running out of things to say about that, and I was wondering if anybody else was going to step in. You are truly stupendous, man. 
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Let's put together the pieces of The Grand Puzzle . (website)
"Let's define another operator, Sz, which we won't pay any attention to."
"This transformation will automatically make zero equal zero."
"It may be true that zero equals zero -- and that is certainly an equality -- but I don't want to go into the details at this time."
Last edited by grav : 29-April-2008 at 11:57 PM.
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