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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply! I'm not sure I fully got that, though. So it seems to be that it's not actually about position (the absolute coordinates), but about the velocity of the particle? So, you could just always use a coordinate system that has the particle at its origin so that its position doesn't need to change, and just invert the vector of its velocity to get the same result?