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Number six, the warm body problem.

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All right. There's a three-body problem in classical mechanics. There is. Uh-huh. Do you want to talk a little bit about it?

Yeah. Sure. Thank you. You have to be kind of a geek to understand it. But basically, when the earth goes around the sun, that's a

two-body problem. But when you add a third body into a rotating system, it becomes mathematically

impossible to predict what they'll do, whereas we know exactly where the earth is going to be, you know, in three months

or two minutes or whatever.

But three bodies makes it really, really hard in classical mechanics, and basically it can't

be solved.

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