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by junon 1649 days ago
This makes more sense and was my first thought watching the video.

Question: At which point does the influence reach actual zero? If it doesn't, does that mean the coffee in front of me is being influenced by Jupiter, however minuscule?

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In field theory, IIRC, fields (absent special setups, i.e. in space) are never actual zero, but due to reverse square law they become too small to actually care about quite soon. But the quantum model may have some limitations on that, since stuff can't be arbitrarily small there AFAIK. Not sure what happens about the gravity - likely, Jupiter might influence your coffee, even though in an immeasurably small way, since gravity is very weak. We know the Moon influences our oceans quite prominently. But maybe there are minimums there too?