From: punditster@gmail.com
On 2/9/2026 2:49 PM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 12:30:35 -0800, Dude wrote:
>
>> On 2/9/2026 9:37 AM, Noah Sombrero wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:29:18 -0800, Dude wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>
>>> What caused him to do that?
>>>
>> That's like asking what was the First Cause?
>
> Yes, and it is turtles all the way down. There is no escaping it.
>
> And we have enough excuses for mindlessness without that one.
>
That's one answer to The Three-Body Fortune. Thanks.
Nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the
belief that life is meaningless. YMMV.
>
>> In the thinker's mind they all probably used logic and observation, and
>> then brain cells triggered critical thinking.
>>
>> Everything is relative to something else. Time, space, and gravity are
>> interconnected rather than absolute. Einstein posited that the speed of
>> light is constant, time slows down at high speeds, and gravity is the
>> warping of spacetime by mass.
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