A A very peculiar emergent definition of gravity

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Newtonian gravity is the force law such that for any mass M, the circular orbit of any test particle m at a distance equal to the Compton length of M has the same areal speed, independent of M and m.

I wonder, have you seen this sort of definition online in the literature? I guess that independency of m is used in most arguments, but independency of M is less usual.
 
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arivero said:
Newtonian gravity is the force law such that for any mass M, the circular orbit of any test particle m at a distance equal to the Compton length of M has the same areal speed, independent of M and m.
Where are you getting this from? Do you have a reference? I'm thinking not, since you say:

arivero said:
have you seen this sort of definition online in the literature?
Please note that personal speculation is off limits here.
 
arivero said:
the old exercise we did here
That was 20 years ago and our rules on speculation, even in the BTSM forum, are much stricter now than they were then.

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