but idk

3 body problem is impossible

It's about what a system of 3 orbiting bodies will look like at any point in the future, based on their starting position

There's no analytical solution for it right now

Weight is just the force things experience towards the ground

yeah but dont we have satellites out there that are being affected by 3 bodies?

they must have solved a 3 body problem to have satellites no ?

Yes, the trick is to make some assumptions that simplify it

i know how they do with assumptions

It turns out that if one of the bodies is really small, like a satellite compared to a moon, you can consider the gravity of the satellite to be zero

And it becomes practically identical to a 2-body problem

ok what about the sun moon and earth how do u fit a satellite into those 3 bodies

remember the sun and moon are moving trillions of gallons of ocean water around earth right

but not the satellite

suspicious to say the least

Remember that the oceans have much bigger masses than satellites, so they experience a much bigger force

For all i know the sun and moon do distort the orbit by a few meters, I don't know

I have this one which is pretty funny

yeah im not buyin these cavendish experiments

Seems like the best thing you can do is test it yourself

If there's something you don't like about what other people have done, you can fix it

the oceans way more so gravtiy of the sun and moon affect it more that doesnt make sense to me

Well it's mass attracting mass remember

The more mass you have, the stronger the attraction

yeah and the satellite is mass

Me neither. If it was something that happened naturally we would see it everywhere

wouldnt u figure the less mass the more it would be affected

Who replaced ya? I thought ODD was in charge.

But with less mass comes less force

does anyone know the trig problem for how 2 people on earth calculate the distance to the sun ?

Where have you tried to observe it and failed @Rudi?

You need good precision to be able to do it properly

Great replacement? That is really sad. You were admins?

I've never observed mass attract mass in nature as such

@jeremy It comes from measuring the angle between the sun and moon at certain times of the month and doing trig with that

Where have you specifically tried to observe it?

we don't see big rocks roll together or nothing

Do we expect to?

The force is weak and would be overpowered by friction after all

If mass attracts mass yup

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