Benedikt Groß
Information Is BeautifulAdding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems:
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😊)@threebodybot would appreciate this 🤘
keith@infobeautiful the tidal charts on some of these planets must be wild.
red_rooster 
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The #older amongst us remember the figures you the when you feed different #periodic signals in the x- and y-deflection of an #Oscilloscope
Often seen in these #pictures from 1966
Silk_Flame (she/her) 😷@infobeautiful these are beautiful and also remind me of spirograph 😊
Ondrej Žižka@infobeautiful I wonder if there are actually any such systems in the real universe.
Max Lee@ondrej_zizka @infobeautiful I feel like the chance for any of them to (naturally) become stable like in the video over a long time would be extremely low.
Lorenz@infobeautiful Maybe related: double pendulums
Double Pendulums are Chaoticn't
Legion495@infobeautiful And this makes for a cool wallpaper