27 Jun
2003
27 Jun
'03
5:41 p.m.
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
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