Comment on Higher Multipoles of the CowparentComments−DroneBetter10dfor simulating gravity in particular you can do one better, since a sphere is in turn gravitationally indistinguishable from a point mass due to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem#Force_on_a_point...−classified10dHence for all practical purposes, zero-dimensional cows are spherical.−naklitechie10dThis deserves a simulator−lhd110dand you can do one better than that - Birkhoff's theorem, the relativistic analogue of the shell theorem.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkhoff%27s_theorem_(relativi...−setopt10dAh yes, indeed, the well-known point-cow approximation!−Sharlin10dThe point-cow is simply the zero-dimensional generalization of the spherical cow.
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for simulating gravity in particular you can do one better, since a sphere is in turn gravitationally indistinguishable from a point mass due to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem#Force_on_a_point...
Hence for all practical purposes, zero-dimensional cows are spherical.
This deserves a simulator
and you can do one better than that - Birkhoff's theorem, the relativistic analogue of the shell theorem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkhoff%27s_theorem_(relativi...
Ah yes, indeed, the well-known point-cow approximation!
The point-cow is simply the zero-dimensional generalization of the spherical cow.