Recent content by VeronicaS

It sounds like what you are trying to describe is essentially an enormous donut made of something that is much more massive per unit volume than the earth, with the hole being the size of the earth. What would happen would depend on the structural integrity and strength of the donut. If it was...

The trampoline thing is kind of how I ended up at the block of wood thing. I thought about that, and had a bit of trouble translating it into a three dimensional image, so I thought of a trampoline with a bowling bowl on it and then layers of material following that configuration, added more and...

Thanks for the welcome. :) That 'block of wood' thing is just how I visualize what would otherwise be a pretty abstract concept. I'm pretty confident that, if I actually tried to develop some idea based on that as a legitimate model, I would soon be in trouble. I understand that it is not...

I posted this question on another forum, and, the answers, thus far, have not really helped me out very much. So, I figured physics questions are best directed toward the 'physics guys'. Here is the text of my two posts. I feel like the problem probably lies with my extremely limited...

I don't know the equation, but, the sum of odd numbers 1 to n is equal to the square of however many odd numbers your adding together. The sum of the odd numbers from 1 to 19, the first 10 odd numbers, is 100. The sum of the first 30 is 900, the first 1000 odd numbers add up to 1,000,000.