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How reliant is the Solar System on being exactly the way it is?
We know that all objects with mass exert forces on all other objects of mass such that
$$ F = \frac{GMm}{R^2}.$$
And as others have discussed the planets do interfere with each other ...
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Staying in orbit - but doesn't any perturbation start a positive feedback?
I am not a physicist; I am a software engineer. While trying to fall asleep recently, I started thinking about the following.
There are many explanations online of how any object stays in orbit. The ...
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Question on the stability of the solar system
One of the pertinent questions about many body systems that causes me much wonder is why the solar system is so stable for billions of years. I came across the idea of "resonance" and albeit an useful ...
