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I can’t quite put my finger on why, but it blows my mind that its that “simple” in the sense that all the factors can be accounted for despite being incomprehen
by nonethewiser 3y ago
I can’t quite put my finger on why, but it blows my mind that its that “simple” in the sense that all the factors can be accounted for despite being incomprehensibly far away. My instinct is that there would almost certainly be some tiny unaccounted for perturbation that throws everything massively off over huge distances yet that’s not the case.
- TuringTourist 3y agoI can guarantee "simple" comes at the cost of (probably) multiple tens of thousands of pages of thrown away scratch paper (or equivalent) over many years and lives.
- Jerrrry 3y agoIt is, it is just so far into the future that it seems trivial. The Voyager spacecraft, when being gravity assisted by Jupiter, stole enough energy from it, that in 5 billion years, Jupiter will be 2 millimeters behind in its orbit around the sun.