I was in physics and had a brief conversation on chaos theory and we started talking about space and he briefly mentioned about the 3 body problem.
Thing is, everything interacts with other things for a reason right? I understand it’s complicated, but if you know all the necessary data, why can’t we do it?
In: Planetary Science
We can do it. We can calculate as precisely as we want. There is just no closed form solution (e.g. a formula) to do it. If you want to know what happens at time t, you can’t plug in t and get the answer. You need to iteratively do the calculation.
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