Assume a spherical cow.
It makes the maths easier. But what else? Learn to code like this yourself with Brilliant! https://www.brilliant.org/simonclark
A spherical cow is such a meme within physics that it has its own Wikipedia page, but why do physics use it? Why do we make approximations about the universe when describing it with equations? I'd argue that the only way to take our understanding beyond the simple is to make the universe simple...
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Visualisation about approximations in physics, assume a spherical cow, primitive look at the universe.
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