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Why is the three-body problem so hard?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Coolest Thing About Science

Science is always at the sot of the leading edge of human knowledge, right? Like, that's what science is. It's sort of like asking the questions nobody's ever asked,. And so sometimes you run into things that are just really, really extra hard, or maybe even impossible yend. Sometimes they're impossible because we just don't have the mathematics yet. A great example is general relativity, which is built on geometry, which was developed just ten years before. Without that work developing geometry, there's no way einstein could have developed relativity. That totally helps me solve this problem i've been struggling with for 20 years.

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