Why is the 3 body problem, a problem?

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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?

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The only problem is that physicists wish they had a simple equation for the behavior.

Not everything boils down to a simple equation.

We can absolutely predict the result numerically.

It’s literally fine.

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