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    A 2-body inspirals that circularize

    Thx — that leads me to wonder if there might be a rare case where, in a 3-body system, C is still gravitationally bound but sufficiently low mass and distant to allow the relatively heavy and close pair A and B to progress due to gravitational waves from inspiral to circular? (For this, I’m...
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    A 2-body inspirals that circularize

    Other than compact binaries, are there conditions where 2-body inspirals circularize? 3-body? Thx
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    Total mass-energy v nature of forces, particles

    [FONT=Calibri][FONT=PT Sans]I should have followed up more directly on mfb's helpful response. [FONT=Calibri][FONT=PT Sans] [FONT=Calibri]Iiuc, vacuum genesis (zero-point universe) is not part of the standard model of cosmology. But under that theory, the nature of the quantum fluctuation...
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    Total mass-energy v nature of forces, particles

    Thank you, mfb. Standard model of both as a baseline. In broader terms, I'm interested in insights from a physics / physicalist / materialist perspective (cosmology, particle physics) into the philosophical question of the one and the many, and how the character of particles are related...
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    Total mass-energy v nature of forces, particles

    What does the standard model have to say about the relationship between the total mass-energy of the universe and the characteristics of forces and force-carrier particles? That is, if the total mass-energy were different, would the nature, strength, … of the forces and force-carrier particles...
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