From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Sat Mar 22 1997 - 20:45:36 MST
: > [...] : no group of people is a "point mass"; they all have
: >internal forces. I'd think of corporations as more like fleets of ships,
: >of various sizes ...
:
: Neither is a star a point mass; it too has internal forces. The analogy can
: be maitained, could it be that you just didn't like where it was going?
The internal forces of a star don't affect the symmetry of its gravity field.
Those of a cluster, on another hand, occasionally eject a member star.
Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
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