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> but I don’t really know the actual physics

Vastly oversimplifying: two versus three dimensions.




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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