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thanatosmin on Feb 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics

Everything is radially symmetric, so a 2D polar coordinate system should be accurate.

taejo on Feb 9, 2015 [–]

True, but note that if you do an actually simulation, waves act fundamentally differently in spaces of odd and even dimension.

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