From: tsm@fastmail.ca   
      
   Julian wrote:   
   > What You Name Things Matters, how you treat people matters and why your   
   > day is a dynamical system, how to avoid thing you don't want, and why   
   > what looks like luck is really a navigational skill   
   >   
   >   
   > There is a problem in physics that has haunted mathematicians since   
   > Newton. Three masses in space, each pulling on the other two through   
   > gravity. Unlike two bodies — which orbit each other in neat, predictable   
   > ellipses — three bodies produce trajectories that are exquisitely   
   > sensitive to the tiniest change in starting conditions. Henri Poincaré   
   > proved in 1890 that there is no general solution. The system is   
   > deterministic. It follows fixed laws. And it is, in any practical sense,   
   > unpredictable.   
   >   
   > You are a three-body problem.   
   >   
   > Not metaphorically. Not loosely. Structurally. You are three masses in   
   > mutual gravitational interaction, and the dynamics of your day — whether   
   > it soars, spirals, or collapses — follow the same mathematics...   
   >   
   > https://mattkilcoyne.substack.com/p/the-three-body-fortune   
   >   
      
   :)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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