30 Apr
2008
30 Apr
'08
9:26 a.m.
Lemesee... How come our solar system isn't a centrifuge? Does the solar system order the planets in terms of density? If not, what makes a centrifuge different from the solar system? I.e., at what densities of planetary matter would things start working differently? At 07:24 PM 4/29/2008, Mike Stay wrote:
It separates things by density, not mass.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Mike Speciner wrote:
<< [quote of passage from NY Times article that Mike evidently considers erroneous]
Mike, I don't recall if I ever understood just how centrifuges work. Would you be so kind as to explain?
--Dan