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yeah everything is probably made of like, idk, earth water, fire and air or something idrk (mander.xyz)
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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your analogy doesn't hold up, because factors get ignored in physics discussion all the time. Whem was the last time you've see a question in a dynamics class that didn't ignore air resistance for the sake of simplicity?

The effect you're describing is orders of magnitude smaller than that. I doubt the change would even register in a double floating-point variable if you did the calculations in Matlab

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only for tiny masses..

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Compared to the mass of the Earth, yes, we're dealing with tiny masses