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About the pointwise or distributed form of matter
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[QUOTE="PeroK, post: 6854080, member: 493650"] That's a view based on ignorance of the theory. It's fine not to understand physics, but you shouldn't assume your confusions about a theory are inherent in the theory itself. Newton proved something called the [I]Shell[/I] [I]Theorem[/I], which shows that the gravitational force between two spheres is the same as that between two point masses. So, it's not an assumption that the Sun and planets are point masses, but that the shell theorem allows us to model the gravitational interaction as though between point masses. That Newtonian gravitational gives an extremely accurate model of the solar system. That is, in fact, the main purpose of the theory. It's not an arbitrary intellectual game. [/QUOTE]
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