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In addition to gravity, burritos interact through the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, which is believed to be a major contributor to their popularity.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3085/

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  • Tja@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    If a particle really only interacted with gravity, would it pass through matter? AFAIK “touching” things is electron repulsion…

    • Sasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Looking at it from a quantum field perspective, pretty much. If the only interactions are through gravity then the underlying field’s evolution can’t be influenced by anything else, I have no real idea what the implications of that would be because we don’t have a QFT for gravity.