[Owen]

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Anybody remember the book the Jupiter Effect?
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I was once in a lecture hall where the physics professor was asked by a student in the top row what he thought of that book. His reply was:

"Young man, *I* have more of a gravitational influence on you than does Jupiter."

[snopercod]

Isn't gravitational attraction proportional to the (product of?) two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them?

Sigh...I used to know all that stuff... Now where did I misplace my Sears and Zemansky?