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mg on Aug 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 15 uncoupled simple pendulums of increasing length...

Yeah, then the inner objects move faster and the outer objects move slower. I find it hard to say, which version I prefer.

Someone on Aug 27, 2011 [–]

Physics prefers that change, at least when gravity drives the motions.

If you adjust the periods as distance^1/3, you get a simple model for a solar system.

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