Attached: 1 video Initial conditions: m1=15.9 m2=65.2 m3=36.2 (solar masses) v1x=3.384 v1y=-4.901 v2x=-4.4 v2y=1.698 v3x=-6.018 v3y=-1.462 (km/s) x1=-2.0 y1=-10.0 x2=-14.0 y2=-27.0 x3=13.0 y3=12.0 (AU from center) Music: Moonlight Sonata (1st Mvmt) – Beethoven

There’s a Mastodon bot that posts videos of random three-body problems (three planets orbiting each other), set to classical music. I figured this community would like it. The one that it just posted is the most interesting one I’ve seen yet.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    There’s a Mastodon bot that posts videos of random three-body problems (three planets orbiting each other), set to classical music. I figured this community would like it.

    I was all ready to be up in arms about this new blight on the social fabric of online discourse, bots? Posting three-body problems? I will fight that tooth and na…ooooh the community likes it! Ok, then, let’s see these bodies solve their problems!