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Re: Saturday Morning Puzzle, Part 2



brian whatcott wrote:

Having provided the answer that Ludwik had in mind, ...
Brian confused me with another contributor. It is my first
comment on this thread.

Consider a vanishingly thin lamina of the kind beloved by
space time enthusiasts, opposed by another similar lamina,
both having the same volume and density as the spheres
which Bernard considered, and separated by a gap of
similar size as the laminate thickness. Is the attractive force
stronger or the same, as two spheres seperated by
a similar distance?

The mass of a "vanishingly thin" lamina of constant density
goes to infinity if the area is kept constant. Nothing was said
about the areas in this problem. Why not?
Ludwik Kowalski





(I hope that this reduction model will be illuminating....)

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net> Altus OK
Eureka!