Comment on We can't all be astronauts.

Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Flames5123@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Take the center of mass at that point. Can’t be 0 because atoms have widths.

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  • clot27@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well we need to dive in quantum physics if we are going that deep, no?

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    • Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Quantum gravity time! (Or each of you could be charged)

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If clothing can have 00 sizes then so can anything.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yup. As I said in another comment, you are not a point mass. The amount of your and her flesh that’s atom-width close is an astronomically small fraction of the total weight, no matter how close you cuddle, and this fraction gets squared because there are 2 bodies. (It’s an integral over two volumes – in layman’s terms, an atom in your hand feels strong (for an atom) attraction to an atom on her hand, but not her head even if your heads also touch.)

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    • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      First assume that it is a spherical cow traveling through a vacuum…

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    • frischkaesbagett@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Reading that was fun. Thanks.

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• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you’re holding hands tight enough that you can feel it at all, you’re already exerting more than 2 milliNewtons of force.

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