• @nitefox
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    61 year ago

    What’s the context?

    • @Lachy
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      331 year ago

      The top shows Newton’s formula for calculating gravitational force between two bodies. The bottom shows Coulomb’s law for calculating the force between 2 electrically charged particles. The joke is that the Coulomb just copied the formulas from Newton’s that was published nearly a century earlier.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        With how gravity isn’t a force in general relativity meaning Newton’s formula isn’t technically correct in a general sense makes it funny Coulomb’s “copied” formula turned out to be the correct one.

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          Isn’t general relativity just a way to interpret reality instead of what reality is?

          I mean, just a very accurate model of reality. But anything can be anything in any model, which is cool as long as the model has some kind of utility.

          (?)

          Or, are we accepting that objectively gravity is definetely not a force?

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      81 year ago

      Laws of physics that look alike. One for large celestial objects and the other for electronic forces.

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      31 year ago

      One on the left is the equation for gravitational attraction between 2 bodies, one on the right is electrical attraction between 2 charged bodies.