
Why is the three-body problem so hard?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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The Number Two Problem Is Solvable
There's something sort of magical about the number two that then you lose whence you get more than two, right? Because it's not just three bodies that are hard. It's also four and five and six, an infinite rate. And when they're all entangled up with each other, you can't always find a solution. All the problems are unsolvable, except for this one magic, special case of two bodies which we have been able to separate using the special trick. So it's sort of lucky that any of them are solvable. Well, t the zero body problem is solvable too. And the one pony problem, i imagine, is solvable. Just that is
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