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|    dart200 to Julian    |
|    Re: The Three-Body Fortune:    |
|    09 Feb 26 16:35:58    |
      From: user7160@newsgrouper.org.invalid              On 2/8/26 1:02 PM, 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              boomer-grade pseudo-philosophical nonsense              and nothing to do with the actual 3 body problem              --       arising us out of the computing dark ages,       please excuse my pseudo-pyscript,       ~ nick              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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