Comment on Why is space 2 dimensional?

gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

It’s a common shape in the universe: large spherical mass in the center, plane of objects rotating around it.

Imagine a new object orbiting Saturn in a random direction. At some point (two, actually), it will cross the plane of the rings. Eventually it will crash into an object. The average of the impact will be closer to the plane. Eventually, it will either align with the plane or its orbit will be unstable.

source
Sort:hotnewtop