Chaotic Planets

Chaos theory amongst the stars!
Lab: labs.minutelabs.io/Chaotic-Pla...
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Special thanks to Nick Bartzokas for help with the code!

[@davidsweeney111]

I could play with this sim for hours, the chaotic patterns are amazing, thanks!

[@willharlow607]

Absolutely incredible! KZbin needs to promote your channel and channels like yours more than they do. Education is so important.

[@Aerolupus]

Best I could do was a solar system (one big rock in the middle without an initial velocity) with three planets orbiting it. I even managed to throw in a moon for the outer planet, but everytime I tried adding a fourth planet one body would crash into another at some point and make it all instable. Three planets and one moon is the best I seem to be able to do to make it stable xD Ha... nevermind... my second planet just came too close to the third planet's orbit. I don't know where my moon is anymore... or my second planet... but the first one is still going frantic circles around the sun so I got that going for me... xD

[@RealationGames]

Hey wow, this is actually very neat, especially the annihilation. Thanks. Would've been fun programming this. I'd love to see the highly sped-up 3D representation of formation of current solar systems.

[@rafaeldemiliteluiz9232]

Please make a 3 dimensional version of this lab, I'm sure I won't be the only one to love that.

[@G0NZA11]

I'd like to see the math behind this.

[@IncertusVeritas]

Me too... We need to know the variables.

[@ThingEngineer]

I love MinuteLabs!

[@whitenbald]

Glad I get to start my physics degree in October! I want to know everything about this! All the maths, all the coding, all the physics :)

[@ciawest]

loving the program you made. was wondering there is a fast forward button and/or rewind button added?

[@k8idid]

Oh!! So much fun!!

[@realquarksandleptons]

It’s amazing

[@TH3BADRO]

Awesome !

[@danielwinicki]

chaos theory, I love you

[@SayeedSAlam]

Thats why Westeros have a long summer!

[@gottalikeit2010]

so, it's a spirograph? Yes, the universe is a spirograph!

[@Schwyndfst]

hypnotic

[@lassekoski895]

so is this rotation cause of madness

[@ciawest]

after using your programme, I had the interesting thought. our orbit around the center of gravity to our solar system is not a perfect circle. which appears to make it look like the earth accelerates when coming closer to the center of gravity and deaccelerates when going away from it. We obviously don't feel this so i think i am missing out something. can anyone explain what i'm missing? please

[@Markus9705]

Nice.

[@anitabonghit2758]

Does the simulation have the possibility of collisions?

[@peifferunsx]

Would the center of mass ever change?

[@zbolt9able]

I can't open it from work :[ 'blocked as games' so sad

[@bacawaka2813]

you should make this into a screen saver.

[@firelow]

Does it work as if it were in 3d space?

[@samramdebest]

is this a bug? from certain start positions some planets so fast that all planets disappear from the screen (because the center of mass is being tracked). I would think that that would not be possible with only gravity. It looks like energy is being fed into the system.

[@Minutelabsio]

It's a "bug". Can you post the configuration?

[@AustinPinheiro_uniquetexthere]

***** ive made them all buggy >> just by making it alll as extreme as possible

[@samramdebest]

***** I tryed to recreate it, this one isn't as buggy as the first one, but i think It shows the problem. goo.gl/00Yq1L

[@Minutelabsio]

samramdebest That one makes sense to me. It's a hyperbolic orbit and the large one is so massive that the center of mass is very close to it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_trajectory

[@samramdebest]

***** It always involves a close encounter from a small planet and a big one. If I am correct the program does the following. calculate gravity adjust speeds change location by amount of speed repeat but this creates a problem. If a planet gets very close to an other planet it gets a lot of speed, goes so far away that it skips a lot of positions that would have slowed him down in real reality.

[@mathtronic]

winter is coming

[@mathtronic]

but seriously, I enjoy watching some of the erratic orbits and imagining what they would mean for seasons on the planet.

[@pbezunartea]

Are there any REAL planets with chaotic orbits?

[@Enregardant]

Given the definition of _theory_ in science, why use it in _chaos theory_?

[@VikramGRao]

***** goo.gl/VinsBz are the yellow and green bouncing off here?

[@VikramGRao]

i loved this pattern,: goo.gl/90TpoA trying to get the 2 larger planets to circle each other and the retain the other two's behavior

[@VikramGRao]

something like a spirograph

[@user-yt5rr6js9q]

goo.gl/KHPY2q Watch the trails

[@fdude4]

this this channel die?

[@Minutelabsio]

We're bringing it back. New app tomorrow!

[@unbreakablefootage]

wat goo.gl/M10Mrr

[@GauravSharma-dy8xv]

The channel is dead

[@NNOTM]

Awesome!