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Re:Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-gener... by JumpCrisscross on Monday January 09, 2023 @02:32PM (#34314847)
> but I don’t really know the actual physics

Vastly oversimplifying: two versus three dimensions.

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Re:Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-gener... by rcme on Monday January 09, 2023 @03:49PM (#34315818)
I don’t think that explains it at all. So garbage floats (more or less), so can be modeled as a 2D plane. But why do patches form? Why isn’t the garbage distributed uniformly across the plane? And why doesn’t that same mechanism apply in 3D?
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