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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My advanced E&M professor said "Imagine a sphere of radius zero. Trust me, it works."

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

"...Imagine a sphere of radius zero."

and a spherical cow. imagining lots of spherical cows helps quite a bit.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Radiating milk equally in all directions, of course.

[–] reinei@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Which constantly stays as a stream but looses density with r^2 (while still being a liquid!)