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Kepler-22b

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Perfect / Imperfect Universe
« on: January 03, 2012, 08:40:53 AM »
Stephen Hawking - An Imperfect Universe

Quote from: Dan Dixon on Steam
Unfortunately this would only actually work with an infinite number of spheres, as the balls at the edge of any group would be pulled toward the center of the room. Only if there were an infinite number of balls in all directions would the pull of the other balls cancel out.

You mean we have a chance for an second big bang?

Edit by Dan: Attached files to this message.
« Last Edit: January 03, 2012, 11:18:58 AM by Dan Dixon »

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Re: Perfect / Imperfect Universe
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2012, 10:09:20 AM »
You CAN attatch the Ubox files to the post itself rather than using a hosting site, just letting you know.

Dan Dixon

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Re: Perfect / Imperfect Universe
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2012, 11:23:20 AM »
I attached the files.

These are great example simulations.

On the Steam forums, I wrote:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2429170

Unfortunately this would only actually work with an infinite number of spheres, as the balls at the edge of any group would be pulled toward the center of the room. Only if there were an infinite number of balls in all directions would the pull of the other balls cancel out.

And you can see how it work with the excellent simulation created by Kepler-22b.

Kepler-22b

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Re: Perfect / Imperfect Universe
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 08:23:10 AM »
Thank you for your praise.