Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for February 18, 2017
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Transcript:
rj: the "three body problem" verne: It's a physics problem involving gravity and predictability of orbits. verne: one body's orbit is stable and easy to predict...two bodies stabalize other....but three bodies' orbit is impossible to predict. rj: This is news to you?
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wcorvi almost 8 years ago
The solution to the two-body problem is an ellipse with the more massive one at one focus. There are no analytic functions that are the solution to the three-body problem, but the orbit is predictable numerically.
juicebruce almost 8 years ago
Until one runs into the random “Hammy” generator………..anything goes :-)
stairsteppublishing almost 8 years ago
Too funny. Definitely my laugh for the day. What a way to wake up. Thank you.
nosirrom almost 8 years ago
Man has ever tried to predict the outcome of the three body problem, but it impossible to predict the reaction of the two women. ;-)
brooklyn51 almost 8 years ago
His unpredictability is predictable.
Stephen Gilberg almost 8 years ago
Thank you, Verne. I had heard the term but couldn’t recall what it meant. Mainly I remembered its use in a sex joke by Randall Munroe.
rekam Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Thank you, Messrs Lewis and Fry, for the wonderful laugh today.
danketaz Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Hammy been hitting the garage sales?
Blaize over 1 year ago
What about jupiter’s moons?