These wacky looking planetary orbits arise when you start considering the gravitational force between n>2 planets • No closed form solution is known for n>2, and is known as the n-body problempic.twitter.com/581Canf5OP
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What's going on at the 0:15 mark in the gif? I don't see how an attractive potential toward the two yellow bodies could force the particle to the left (unless this is in a rotating reference frame with respect to the two yellow bodies?)
nice observation .. indeed it is is the rotating frame of the yellow bodies
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how come the yellow bodies are always shown with a constant distance between them? is distance normalized to the distance between these two, or is this done in some limit where this is true?
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What happened to being an inertial observer?
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