Re:Are black holes made of dark energy?
by semi-extrinsic on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @12:06PM
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The reason everything gets "shoehorned" into "mass on a spring" is that this is the first term in the Taylor expansion.
No matter how ugly an expression you have for force as a function of distance, if you do the Taylor expansion you inevitably get a constant force term (often zero) and a "mass on a spring" term.
No matter how ugly an expression you have for force as a function of distance, if you do the Taylor expansion you inevitably get a constant force term (often zero) and a "mass on a spring" term.