27 Jun
2003
27 Jun
'03
6:21 p.m.
Yes, but is this _Newtonian_ mechanics & gravity? Most astronomers that I know want to know about the real (relativistic) universe, not the Newtonian universe. Most of the articles I've seen recently appear to have relativistic mechanics built in. At 04:40 PM 6/27/03 -0700, Eugene Salamin wrote:
The answer is "yes" to both questions. This has been around for years in the computational physics/astronomy journals.
--- asimovd@aol.com wrote:
I am curious whether anyone has done large-scale simulations of point masses in 3-space with random initial positions and velocities, under Newtonian mechanics & gravity.
I'm especially curious whether that's enough for galaxy-shaped objects to appear.
--Dan