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I recently thought that if life supposedly happened by chance then it should be same for the three-body problem: naturally occurred solutions floating here and

I recently thought that if life supposedly happened by chance then it should be same for the three-body problem: naturally occurred solutions floating here and there somewhere.

adastra22 11mo ago
There’s a big one in the sky right now - the Earth-Moon-Sun system.
- 2b3a51 11mo ago
  The relative scales might be a bit hard to put in the simulation. Roughly 400 to 1 for Earth-Sun to Earth-Moon. It would be fun to set that up and view from Earth and view from Sun though.
- JKCalhoun 11mo ago
  Give it time…
  - adastra22 11mo ago
    With full tidal locking and no external perturbations, it would be permanently stable. If that still bothers you, then consider L4/L5 orbits. An object orbiting around the L4/L5 points in a 3-body system will be perpetually stable so long as there is no external perturbations with total energy above the "hill" at the edge of the L4/L5 space.