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There is this cool paper "Crash test for the restricted three-body problem" [0], that plots where the third body eventually ends up when dropped from any locati
by 7373737373 3y ago
There is this cool paper "Crash test for the restricted three-body problem" [0], that plots where the third body eventually ends up when dropped from any location. Looks very fractal-like [1][2]
[0] https://scholar.archive.org/work/wnwgyliq5fgtba45k535t5lb5e/access/wayback/http://www.nld.ds.mpg.de/~jan/crashrtbp2.pdf https://scholar.archive.org/work/wnwgyliq5fgtba45k535t5lb5e/...
[1] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Crash-test-for-the-restricted-three-body-problem.-Nagler/2d2fea1fcccf769193b0a6c75adbac54d9aec76c/figure/4 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Crash-test-for-the-res...
[2] https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Crash-test-for-the-restricted-three-body-problem.-Nagler/2d2fea1fcccf769193b0a6c75adbac54d9aec76c/figure/6 https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Crash-test-for-the-res...
- jameshart 3y ago‘Strange attractors’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor “An attractor is called strange if it has a fractal structure.”
- cl3misch 3y agoThank you for reminding me of this beautiful field of mathematics. The best textbook I've ever read: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven Strogatz.
- mock-possum 3y agoLooks like fluid dynamics / turbulence to me
- DrFalkyn 3y agoE&M and gravity are both n^2 forces, but E&M has polarity, whereas gravity (at least we encounter it) does not.