• rockerface 🇺🇦
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    1331 month ago

    Gravity is the weakest fundamental force, yes. At least, at relatively close distances. The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.

    • DreamButt
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      261 month ago

      I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it’s effectively zero

        • Captain Janeway
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          121 month ago

          Is that actually true? I’m not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.

      • @qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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        41 month ago

        Dipoles are, effectively, not — so if you have a charged bit and another opposite charged bit, while an inverse relationship might exist between either one, the net effect is that it drops off much faster.

        The thing with gravity is it tends to go one way, unlike, say, charge.