What is a Three Body Problem?
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I have a really smart 6 year old if I do say so myself. If you were to ask about this particular problem, I’d really only be able to draw it out. But here are a few words. The Moon is locked in orbit around Earth. You always see the same face, the light side of the Moon. Every night sometimes in the early morning, and sometimes in the early evening before the sun goes down, you see the Moon. And you always see the same face.
If the moon were more of a close star, we would have a really strange night and day because of how fast we would be moving. Our Earth and this star interact like magnets that you are pulling and closing the distance on in various intervals. Because of the way the planet in the star move around they never come in contact. So they just kind of bounce around. If we introduce a second star, not only is the Earth being bounced around, but the other star is being bounced around, which is just kind of crazy.
Then I’d show the Wikipedia page and the little GIF they have for it.
Done, 5yo have a 2 minute attention span.
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