The article "Roche's Limit and the Patten Epic" by Philip H. Hoff critiques Donald W. Patten's flood-ice dump theory, which relies heavily on the concept of Roche's limit. Hoff explains that Roche's limit is the distance at which a celestial body held together by gravity, like a moon made of ice, would disintegrate due to tidal forces from a larger celestial body, like the Earth.