I recently thought that if life supposedly happened by chance then it should be same for the three-body problem: naturally occurred solutions floating here and there somewhere.
I recently thought that if life supposedly happened by chance then it should be same for the three-body problem: naturally occurred solutions floating here and there somewhere.
There’s a big one in the sky right now - the Earth-Moon-Sun system.
The relative scales might be a bit hard to put in the simulation. Roughly 400 to 1 for Earth-Sun to Earth-Moon. It would be fun to set that up and view from Earth and view from Sun though.
Give it time…
With full tidal locking and no external perturbations, it would be permanently stable. If that still bothers you, then consider L4/L5 orbits. An object orbiting around the L4/L5 points in a 3-body system will be perpetually stable so long as there is no external perturbations with total energy above the "hill" at the edge of the L4/L5 space.