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I'm sure this will not affect gravity paths somewhat as a butterfly effect.
by puppetmaster3 11y ago
I'm sure this will not affect gravity paths somewhat as a butterfly effect.
- Sanddancer 11y agoNope. Everything involved is way too small to do something like that. Worst case scenario is we get a shooting star.
- Houshalter 11y agoNot true. Due to the butterfly effect, even tiny changes to a system will totally change the output given enough time. Simulations of the orbits of the planets turn out totally different after billions of years if the measurements of planets are changed by even an inch.
- monochromatic 11y agoI get your point, but this thing is many, many orders of magnitude smaller than a planet.
- drdeca 11y agoIf it did, why would there be any reason to expect that the average influence would be more bad than good?
- Dylan16807 11y agoSure. It will be about equivalent. 99.9999999% chance of doing nothing, half the rest is good, the other part bad.
- Confusion 11y agoSo do satellites and spacecraft, but we still choose to send them out. What's different about nudging an asteroid?
- cLeEOGPw 11y agoButterfly effect only has meaning in a closed system simulation context, where we can find a small difference in initial condition which triggers major changes in later simulation. When talking about real life, it is meaningless, because we can not "rerun" life to check the result after minor change.