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How come we talk about gravitational potential energy and not gravitational potential?
With regards to gravity the equation learned is $$U=-\frac{GMm}{r}$$
And the relationship to force is $$F=-\frac{dU}{dr}$$
In electrostatics we instead talk about electric field and electric ...
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How do aspherical gravitational monopoles look like?
I was recently pointed by laboussoleestmonpays to a beautiful paper from some time ago,
Aspherical gravitational monopoles. Alain Connes, Thibault Damour and Pierre Fayet. Nucl. Phys. B 490 no. 1-2 ...
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