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Why is the three-body problem so hard?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Predict the Motion of a Ball

physics gives you all the equations you need to solve. But that doesn't mean we know how to find the solution. Not every equation you get is solvable, or we don't arely have the mathematical tools to solve an arbitrary equation. Turns out, in physics, they're only like five problems we do know how to solve, and everything else is intractable.

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