N-Body Problem Simulation with 6 Free Masses | Gravity | Physics Simulations

A simulation of the n-body problem with 6 free masses. Each mass moves under the gravity of the others. The masses start with equal distances from each other, and the same speed, moving along a tangent to the circle formed by the positions of the six masses.

- Newtonian Gravity
- all masses equal
- symmetric start
- chaos / chaotic motion
- velocities and positions calculated using Runge-Kutta methods
- 25fps, 30s

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[Mqrius]

Let it run longer. The chaos is the more interesting part.

[WhyneedanAlias]

Is it because of floating point errors or did you intend for the system not to be perfect?

[aSpyIntheHaus]

God Dang it Guys!! You were going so well! Who screwed up this time?... Green! was it you? It was you wasn't it?!

[paulsnow]

What program did you use to make this video?

[nickf]

I love how you look and say "everything is in perfect harmony this time!" until suddenly someone decides to screw everything up. "I'm fed up of this sh*t, bring it on!". Planetary war.

[skillfulfighter]

If there were no rounding errors would this be a solution to the problem?

[novygaming]

Why does this happen ;-; the shape is symmetrical and the forces should add up to point towards the middle. Why and how can that happen :(

[starpawsy]

WIth a symmetric mass distribution, I wonder whether the initial elliptical orbits would obey Kepler's second law (equal areas).

[chaitanya]

Why does your simulation always breaks ?