
Why is the three-body problem so hard?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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Is There a Simple Formula for the Three Body Problem?
When you have two objects in space, it's easy enough to s predict where theyre ging to be. But once you have three, it there's no easy solution to that problem. What you'd like is something like x, f t, where x is the position of the object and then a simple formula for time. Our ations are not good at describing chaotic mathematics. We don't really have functions that are very good a describing chaotic situations. It gets really complicated because now you have three objects in three d - ab our going to thet third dimension. That makes it hard.
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