I mean yeah but also you reverse that square enough and it’s effectively zero
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rockerface@lemm.ee 1 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.
tdawg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
But never actually zero, unlike those other quitter “forces”
captainjaneway@lemmy.world 1 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.
nxn@biglemmowski.win 1 month ago
Not the person you replied to, and not really an expert either, but I can tell you that the W and Z bosons (force carriers for the weak force) are very short lived and can only travel so far before they decay. This effectively puts a cap on the distance of the weak force.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Nah, at some point the simulation we live in is going to round down to save computing power.
InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 1 month ago
The advantage gravity has is that it never quite goes away, no matter how far you are.
That’s true of all the fundamental forces, though. They all drop off over distance with inverse square laws. Like if you had two lone electrons in an otherwise empty universe, their electromagnetic repulsion would also persist indefinitely at 1/r^2 strength, just like gravity. The difference is that our universe has near-perfect charge neutrality at large scales.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Electromagnetic doesn’t go away either. It’s that damn negavite charge neutralizing the stuff.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aren’t all forces subject to the inverse square law?
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 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.
einlander@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like a stalker.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
So it’s like humans? 🤔
We aren’t particularly strong, but we became apex predators because we never. Stop. Coming.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Also, we, never, stop, cumming.
whostosay@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So much to cum, so much to cum,
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
So what’s wrong with cumming the backstreet
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 month ago
Can you imagine being those antelope being hunted by early human ancestors -
“Ok, bob, we just bolted at 40mph for a minute or so, they’re not going to find us again.”
“Clarice, you said that the last 8 times and they still showed up! They’re unnatural! They just keep following and following us! Alex smashed his shin that last run, and I don’t know how many more times I can run myself! We’re doomed Clarice! Doomed!”
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
It’s basically a zombie movie, but the main character is Bambi.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They cannot be bargained with. They cannot be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Exactly. Raise your hand. Great, you overcame gravity for a second. Keep your hand raised for a minute. 10 minutes. An hour. Fuck, gravity doesn’t stop. It’s exactly like us.
rooroo@feddit.org 1 month ago
about to make ourselves go away from bough.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Whoops
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 month ago
Whoopsee