Mathematicians crack Newton's three-body problem

\0xDynamite dreamingforward at gmail.com
Thu Dec 19 18:41:31 PST 2019


> https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/mathematicians-crack-newtons-three-body-problem/

The site refused to let me read it all, but I can tell you it's
horseshit.  You can't "short-circuit" a chaotic dynamic.  The two body
problem is ordered and you can guess where the two bodies will be at
some abitrary future, but a choatic dynamic (like the 3 or n-body
problem) will not be analyzable--it's not regular.

The *only* way to predict what will happen in a 3+-body problem is to
actually simulate it.

Done.

Mark


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