How HEAVY is a World in Minecraft?

Here we use Gauss' law for gravity to estimate the mass of an entire world in Minecraft. This is a basic application of Gauss' law, requiring no need for integrals of any kind, which is lovely (in general calculating flux can require the use of surface integrals). Enjoy :3
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[@thodoris2547]

I really like the theme and you actually made me do some research xD. Can't wait to see more.

[@thodoris2547]

I had no idea you could use Gauss' law for gravitational fields, so that was interesting.

[@madaydude_physics]

@@thodoris2547 Thanks Thodoris, nice to see you on the channel :)

[@kuzu2104]

Nice video, happy new year 🎉

[@madaydude_physics]

Thanks kuzu, happy new years to you as well!

[@Exormus]

I don't think you can assume the same gravitational constant for the minecraft universe as in real life. Maybe measuring the inertial mass of some material in minecraft is a better approach, but I'm not sure how one would do that.

[@madaydude_physics]

Good point Exormus- This is a good comment to emphasize the creative liberty taken in this video in which we assume the slab in our Minecraft world does indeed match the physics of a slab in the real world (including the universal gravitation constant holding). I think it would also be really cool if there was a way to get a true sense of big G in Minecraft. Great comment :)

[@CybernetonPL]

me expecting this video to be explaining how much a world weights on an ssd aka a few gramms...
ME WHEN U SAY ITS 100.000 TIMES MORE DENSE THAN EARTH