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I'm working off the idea that in an infinite expanse of uniform matter, you would experience no gravitational pull in any direction, since every side would cancel out every other side (like being in the center of a planet). If a hole were made in the rock, though, you'd feel no pull from that hole, and if you were at the edge of the hole you'd feel a pull equal to the missing mass, but in the opposite direction.

Does the math work out on this? Would a 'solar system' of star-and-planet sized holes in the rock experience opposite-magnitude gravitational effects on each other? Assuming no density irregularities, would it still manage to collapse into black holes, considering infinite matter?

This assumes Newtonian mechanics, I guess, because I assume the idea of an infinite expanse of uniformly dense matter is in some way non-physical when considering general relativity.

As far as general relativity goes, would that much matter mess it up, or would the stress-energy thingy at every point just be zero?

Anyways, sorry if this question is ridiculous, and thanks for reading.

Am I ever going to get away with this?

I'm writing a novel, not too long, but one of the central parts of the plot is that the time period is unclear. It's ostensibly set in turn of the century Victorian England (courtly things, sailboats, early steam liners, computers referred to as difference engines), but there are cues towards the era being very different.

So, the diction of the characters is not in keeping with Victorian England, but I don't know how to indicate that this makes sense and isn't just me swearing for lack of better words. I really like the swearing, because it helps build the world (low consequence, bright colors, fast action) and let's me avoid Victorian sensibilities, but I don't know how much it turns people off when they read it.

When you read a piece and there's swearing, does it immediately turn you off? Do you think less of the author?

somewhere around 45000 total for the month. that's probably as close as I'm going to get to a national novel writing month, and I didn't even do it at the right time.

the handiest thing is having somewhere online to post it. the idea that somebody somewhere might expect me to turn something up daily is pretty motivating.

v1c1p19 - magnificent!
v1c1p23 - that hat! that mustache! it must be the patrick-stewart-voiced badass!
v1c1p25 - she's so in tune with nature she probably poops forests
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v1c1p55 - what a badass
v1c1p56 - so strident, too
v1c2p7 - what is going on here?
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v1c2p67 - one mask? that means we can both survive, because of fractions.
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