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xpe on Sept 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gravity Simulator

Great! I tried it out; when I combined a galaxy with a field , many particles went flying from the center at a high rate of speed. Why is that?

mcdevhammer on Sept 8, 2014 [–]

When a small particle gets accelerated to great speeds as it approaches a massive object it simply passes through because the collisions are off/aren't perfect even when they're on

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