Three-body problem gets 1000 solutions

• Autores: Leah Crane
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3145, 2017, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • For 300 years or so, mathematicians have puzzled over the "three-body problem"--the question of how three objects orbit one another. Now, there are 1223 new solutions to the conundrum, more than doubling the existing number of possibilities. The new solutions were found when researchers at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China tested 16 million different orbits using a supercomputer. All the fresh orbits found are periodic. This means that objects, whether planet or proton, end up where they first began the orbit with their paths forming three intertwined loops.