• HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    26 days ago

    Ooi. As you seem to have a hold on the physics.

    My first thought was. If a planet the size and location of neptune just vanished.

    What effects would that have on the rest of the solar system. Given Pluto was found due to its effect on neptune I think. And this is a relatively small mass on a larger one.

    I’d be very interested to hear opinions on what the sudden disappearance of a planet would do.

    Just to put everyone’s mind at rest. I am not an evil scientist working on quantum teleportation.

    That said. Feel free to consider other planets. … such as jupiter. ;)

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      Not sure if that would be as simple as estimating the falling time. Most likely, it will change the revolution period of other planets, but my guess is that nothing dramatic is going to happen. Would love to see a simulation of that, of course ❤️

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        26 days ago

        Check out Universe Sandbox on steam. Open the Sol system and delete a planet, change all the settings add black holes

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          Well, I tried to remove Neptune in Universe Sandbox, it did nothing (as expected, tbf). I tried to remove all the planets except the Earth, and it spilled moons all over the solar system, but none even hit the Earth in a hundred years of simulation. Earth seemed to go slightly faster on the orbit (very slightly, though)

          The sandbox looks pretty meditative, but also seems like it could do as a good education supplement, thanks for the hint

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            Yeah, I normally used it to play with the gravity of the sun or the planets. It is a free sim but with what I was doing it was fun to watch the planets fly out of the system.