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Originally Posted by tony873004
Because none of the heavy planets are in resonance with each other, they will never align the same way twice.
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Are you sure about this? It depends what you mean by resonance. There is a fairly strong 179 year resonance between Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune with drift of just over one part in a thousand (0.1% per cycle). Of course nothing is exact in such matters, but this ‘resonance’ produces very strong similarity between SSB patterns separated by 179 years.
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If I let the simulation run longer before taking a screen shot, rather than overlapping spirographs, the image would just get busier and busier until all you saw was one big yellow blob in the middle of the screen.
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Surely you could run a lot more iterations on the simulation without Jupiter before the pattern got too busy?