Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky — but a new study may reveal 12,000 new ways to make it work.

Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to ‘unsolvable’ 3-body problem::Calculating the way three things orbit each other is notoriously tricky, but a new study may reveal 12,000 new solutions.

  • skabbywag02@lemm.eeEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Damn it, I just started Cixin’s book and now these jerks are going to spoil it;)

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s similar to a lot of golden age SF novels from Clarke, Asimov, etc. Big, fantastic ideas combined with characters that are cardboard cutouts.

    • treefrog@lemm.eeEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      You clicked the thread!

      And me too, I’m just at the beginning of the second book lol