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AxelBoldt
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For a gas and dust cloud to collapse under gravity to form a star and planets, is the concept of friction important at all?
In other words: let's consider a large number of billiard balls, no internal degrees of freedom, participating in completely elastic collisions, with random initial conditions, subject only to their own gravity. Will they eventually clump together into one big "star" and several smaller "planets" surrounding the star?
In other words: let's consider a large number of billiard balls, no internal degrees of freedom, participating in completely elastic collisions, with random initial conditions, subject only to their own gravity. Will they eventually clump together into one big "star" and several smaller "planets" surrounding the star?