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Why is the three-body problem so hard?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Solve a Two Body Problem?

Mathematicians call these problems non in e which just means that like the possible trajectories for these objects in this three d space don't follow simple paths, right? Like they diverge very quickly. It's not like it can be easily simplified from a whole big set of possible solutions down to just a few. And we can go a little bit further if you look at the structure of the problem.

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