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sophiecentaur said:Because it would demonstrate the commonality between such phenomena.
Well, it seems like the key point from this discussion is an important difference between this case and other phenomena where energy and angular momentum are involved, namely, that this case does not have an equilibrium that is a minimum of potential energy.
sophiecentaur said:The problem here seems to be that you are finding reasons why not to consider what I suggest.
No, the "problem" is that I see an important difference between this case and other cases that have been brought up (which I have just restated, again, above), and you either don't see it or don't understand why I think it's important. You have not made a single comment that I can find responding to this important difference, even though I have pointed it out multiple times. Do you seriously not see it as important?
sophiecentaur said:I really don't see why parallels between phenomena don't strike you as 'insightful'.
If you can show me such a parallel that adds something to the analysis I've already done, I'll be happy to consider it. But the fact that I haven't come up with such a parallel myself does not mean that I am "finding reasons" not to. It just means that I see a particular feature of this case that makes it different from other cases as a key to the analysis.