Galaxy Collision (Newtonian toy model)pic.twitter.com/WPAP6aNOpD
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Calculation is in the frame where the CM of the white galaxy is at rest •Ignored the pairwise interactions between the orbiting bodies •The initial "flailing out" of the blue galactic arms is because i accidentally (?) gave the particles too much initial angular momentum
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Replying to @InertialObservr
So every body is interacting only with the system's center of mass?
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Replying to @huntthesnark
every body is subject to two gravitational potentials (the center of each galaxy)
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