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Look at what paper actually says: flat "not achievable" in the abstract; and the scaling laws on page 4 are third- and fourth- inverse powers of distance (!!!!); and on page 7 they're considering ranges of the same length scale as a submarine itself (few hundreds of meters), and even there it's hopeless.

This one's never going to happen.

Geologic mass concentrations are an entirely different story: you get a gravitational monopole, which is a more reasonable inverse square law. (No monopoles for a submarine, because by design they have a mean density equal to water—as the paper explains).



What an excellent retrospectively obvious point!




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