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How to think like a mathematician

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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What Kind of Shrinking Are You Talking About?

Jupiter is a small bowl of gas, but it's hot and under high pressure. If you took all that heat and then removed the gravity holding it together, it would go from being a small hot ball of gas back to being a large diffuse cold one. So you'd just be watching Jupiter's formation in reverse.

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