[vitiral]

3 body problem: orbital decay when there are three orbiting bodies of SIMILAR MASS.

Mercury is not similar mass to the sun, so this is not the three body problem

[aurareturn]

GPT4 seems to think it is a 3 body problem. Mercury and Earth are of similar size and exert gravitational effects on each other. Take away mercury and maybe the earth slowly drifts a little.

The point is that a very small difference in starting conditions yield wildly different results.

[vitiral]

GPT4 is an idiot. It actually cancels out over the orbit for small objects

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...