
Why is the three-body problem so hard?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Three Body Problem by Di Kendof
Yat's like one of the biggest novels in the last few years. A whole trilogy written by a fantastic chinese author. The title refers to kind of an old and famous problem in physics about, i imagine, three bodies. It's a really old problem. There are other mathematical problems that existed for hundreds of years, and then all of a sudden, some dude in a cabin in russia comes out without a hundred page proof of it. So it might be possible to be solved, but nobody's cracked this one.
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