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20 Jul 2024 03:33:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: n-body system  
From: Dave Brickell
Date: 11 Mar 2002 12:21:02
Message: <3c8ce77e@news.povray.org>
Hi Draco

I like this very much and was going to do something very similar a while
back. Unfortunatly time and mathmatical problems did not allow me.

Quick question.

-Is the gravity of each particle proportional to its size/mass?

If so I think it would be cool if you got rid of the ground plane then
started with a few thousand randomly scattered particles. When 2 particles
collide they join together to form 1 particle with the combined size/mass of
the original 2.

I just wonder whether you would end up with 1 big particle or whether they
would settle into a stable universe/solar system.

Just wondering :)

Keep up the good work.

Dave


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