Recent content by Exy

Tl;dr: Here is as far as I have gotten in my failures, but my stomach has now also given up and I cannot work on this until that's fixed. We will see how well I can keep up. I have been trying to do this since but have not managed to get it to work. I tried to treat it as a 2 body problem with...

No I don't think so. I may not have been very good at explaining the problem. Imagine the 3 body problem with identical masses, all orbiting their barycenter in a circle. The question is what each bodies distance to the center would be if they were different in mass, but all still orbiting in a...

Hello physics, While this is about sci-fi worldbuilding, I feel like this belongs on this board more. CONTEXT: I have been building a fictional neighborhood for our star and using the formula to get the orbital period of orbiting bodies around a stationary mass. Some of the systems have been...