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New Theories / Does Earth/Moon Model Show Cavendish Is Wrong?
« on: 26/09/2008 14:13:50 »
But how are you accomplishing that scale-down? You should realize that the size of the earth and moon vary as the cube of their radii. Meaning that if you make the earth one millionth its normal size, the mass decreases by a factor of 1018. Doing the same to the moon results in a similar effect. So, while the distance between the moon and the earth has decreased by a factor of 106, the force due to gravity has decreased by a factor of 1036. That's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the change of the distance.
Is it really any surprise that you might not see an effect?
Is it really any surprise that you might not see an effect?