To: Anonymous Rex
Nothing. It’s just that a gravitational n-body system for n > 2 exhibits chaotic dynamics, and it’s possible that the system could move into a different part of the phase space just in the normal course of things.
7 posted on
04/23/2008 9:12:02 AM PDT by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: The_Reader_David
a gravitational n-body system for n > 2 exhibits chaotic dynamics True also for a Presidential campaign. Got three candidates and it's dynamically chaotic.
11 posted on
04/23/2008 9:17:42 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
To: The_Reader_David
Nothing. It’s just that a gravitational n-body system for n > 2 exhibits chaotic dynamics, and it’s possible that the system could move into a different part of the phase space just in the normal course of things. That being said, it is also true that there often exist regions of phase space which remain dynamically inaccessible; I assume from the article that Earth-Mars collisions are within the regions which are accessible.
Full disclosure: Egad, I'd hate to have to code a full expression of the equations of motion for a 10-body system...plus asteroids (perturbation) *plus* minor relativistic effects on Mercury.
Cheers!
35 posted on
04/24/2008 4:35:13 AM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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