A beautiful solution of the gravitational 4-body problem. But keep watching, because it's not stable!https://twitter.com/simon_tardivel/status/1215728659010670594 …
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Replying to @johncarlosbaez @InertialObservr
I don't understand why it's unstable. I'm the farthest thing from a physicist, so I'm sure I'm missing something obviously, but it seems to me like it should be stable. Is something influencing their movement besides each other?
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Even if it was perfectly stable in theory, it's a computer simulation, there's rounding errors, and those can explode really quickly in chaotic systems.
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Yes that’s possible but I’m assuming he’s accounted for that
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