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Excerpt: "The force due to gravity reduces with the square of the distance. If you double the distance, the force is not halved but reduced to a quarter of its
by peter_d_sherman 7y ago
Excerpt:
"The force due to gravity reduces with the square of the distance. If you double the distance, the force is not halved but reduced to a quarter of its original value. This law, called an inverse square law, is based purely on geometry: we live in three spatial dimensions, and therefore the inverse square law holds."