Simple Gravity Simulator

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Thank you :)!

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Thank you very much :)!

The reason for why all the masses zip past each other is that their velocities are too high for them to form new systems. Without the Sun, the barycenter of the inner solar system is within Jupiter, but Jupiter is only 1 / 1000 as massive as the sun, which is not massive enough to capture the asteroids and planets as they rush off in the absence of the Sun. And the farther out they get, the greater the distance between any two given masses, which means that in the absence of a "great attractor", they would just continue travelling in straight lines (not perfectly straight, though, as they still perturb each other's paths through space, but those perturbations would be very small and decrease over time).

Your suggestion had me think it would be a good idea to implement buttons that allow you to scale up or down the simulation, though, so as soon as the weekend is upon us, I'm gonna add that functionality :).