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You misunderstood, I mean for the top to be flat but the "underground" to have some kind of shape to compensate for the gravitational pull at all points on the
by jimmaswell 2y ago
You misunderstood, I mean for the top to be flat but the "underground" to have some kind of shape to compensate for the gravitational pull at all points on the flat surface. For a 2Dish example in the ballpark, you could think of one of these wooden toy bridge blocks: https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/natural-wood-blocks-364582.jpg https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/b/natural-wood-blocks-364582.j...
I think you could construct a curve such that the mass's gravitational pull on the right cancels out the pull on the left, for any point on the surface.