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To: superskunk
Is that the one where the gravitational force between to objects decreases exponentially with respect to distance?

Yep. And the same applies to lots of radiatively propagated thinguses -- like light intensity...

I always get a kick when the TV shows people up in the top of a big stadium -- popping their little photoflashes at a subject hundreds of yards away... '-)

72 posted on 01/09/2005 8:14:06 PM PST by TXnMA (Attention, ACLU: There is no constitutionally protected right to NOT be offended -- Shove It!)
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To: TXnMA
I always get a kick when the TV shows people up in the top of a big stadium -- popping their little photoflashes at a subject hundreds of yards away... '-)


Yeah. I get a kick out of that too. You must be a physicist. I'm an engineer. That physics stuff kind of blew my mind, but some of it sank in. (mostly electrostatics)
84 posted on 01/09/2005 8:30:46 PM PST by superskunk (Quinn's Law: Liberalism always produces the exact opposite of it's stated intent.)
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