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> This system is completely stable—I double-checked with computer simulations. Until some idiot on planet 297 moves his couch from one side his living room to
by AndrewStephens 9y ago
> This system is completely stable—I double-checked with computer simulations.
Until some idiot on planet 297 moves his couch from one side his living room to the other. Then the whole system is going to slowly fall apart,
- catpolice 9y agoWhen I read this article initially, I got the impression that here "stable" actually means that it's not sensitive to small perturbations - the orbital pattern is a local attactor and is thus sort of "self-correcting", at least over some non-trivial timespan. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong about that (in which case this whole exercise is somewhat silly).
- ygaf 9y agoYeah I think HN forgot to be charitable today.