Unusual and beautiful solutions to the Three-Body Problem.
He has seven pages with multiple examples on each page. Take a few minutes -- they just get wilder as you go.
(Three planets chasing each other around a figure-eight orbit can be stable. Who knew?)
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November 30, 2006
Unusual and beautiful solutions
Unusual and beautiful solutions to the Three-Body Problem.
He has seven pages with multiple examples on each page. Take a few minutes -- they just get wilder as you go.
(Three planets chasing each other around a figure-eight orbit can be stable. Who knew?)
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Way cool. Thanks Doug.
Posted by: Christine | November 30, 2006 at 03:58 PM
Very nice! I've declared it "Physics Day" in my department and sent around the link.
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero | November 30, 2006 at 05:04 PM
The old cliches about the ship "spiraling out of orbit" don't seem quite so awful, after all.
Posted by: pouncer | November 30, 2006 at 07:25 PM
Celestial mechanics is the new crack. (You should see what I got in the lab.)
Posted by: Carlos | December 01, 2006 at 02:47 AM
So we might yet discover planetary rosettes?
Posted by: Randy McDonald | December 05, 2006 at 07:41 AM
Rosette-like behavior, probably. Stable rosettes, unlikely. Note how sensitive Butikov's configurations are to initial conditions.
Posted by: Carlos | December 06, 2006 at 04:46 AM