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   Dude to Tara   
   Re: The Three-Body Fortune:   
   09 Feb 26 09:29:18   
   
   From: punditster@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/8/2026 1:43 PM, Tara wrote:   
   > 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   
   >>   
   >   
   > :)   
   >   
   Finally, something interesting to talk about and post comment for   
   discussion. Thanks.   
      
   The historical Buddha, 563 to 483 B.C, taught that cause and effect,   
   rooted in the law of karma were based on intentional actions. All   
   voluntary actions of body, speech, and mind produce corresponding   
   reactions. Supposedly, positive actions lead to happiness, while   
   negative ones result in suffering, shaping an individual's experiences   
   across lifetimes.   
      
   Everything that happens, is caused by something else that causes it.   
      
   Then come the thinkers from Greece.   
      
   Aristotle, 384–322 BCE, who is generally credited with the first formal,   
   systematic theory of causality in Western philosophy, established the   
   the law of cause was that there is a specific cause or set of causes.   
      
   He outlined the "four causes"—material, formal, efficient, and final—in   
   his works Physics and Metaphysics to explain why things exist and change.   
      
   So, one thing leads to another, since the beginning of Time.   
      
   Speaking time.   
      
   How does all that fit in with Albert Einstein, the thinker who first   
   established the special theory of relativity in 1905 and the general   
   theory of relativity by 1915?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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