65 points danielmorozoff 2 days ago 8 comments
RugnirViking 44 minutes ago | parent
very ai but also pretty cool. wheres the data source? could I find my own periodic solution?
deskamess 36 minutes ago | parent
I guess I misunderstood or mis-scoped the problem. Does the 3-body problem state 'the general case' has no solution, but that does not preclude some configurations from having a solution?
incognito124 30 minutes ago | parent
That's exactly the case
isolli 25 minutes ago | parent
It's also not computable, as in chaotic. Small differences in initial positions will lead to unpredictably large differences in trajectory (with small and large having specific meanings to match the formal definition of a chaotic system).
RALaBarge 27 minutes ago | parent
This is an amazing looking website, I like it a lot.
inatreecrown2 27 minutes ago | parent
Very cool visuals and site!
Could I make a suggestion:
You show the masses (1,1,1), but not the starting positions, which alter the course of events too.
nautilus12 26 minutes ago | parent
Is this assumed to be 2D? I was going to ask if there are any observed examples of 3 body equilibrium observed in nature.
raverbashing 14 minutes ago | parent
Yes. Because 3 points are coplanar, so every "3D problem" with 3 objects can be turned into a 2D problem on the correspondent plane
(of course in real life your plane would keep changing, and probably some other complicated math I can't think right now)