One planet orbiting a star? No problem. Two or more planets orbiting a star? Now that's one of the biggest problems in astrophysics.Image credit: NASA
Posted on 09/17/2023 6:07:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
One planet orbiting a star? No problem. Two or more planets orbiting a star? Now that's one of the biggest problems in astrophysics.Image credit: NASA
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Amazing how the science hasn’t been settled for over 300 years on this, but magically it’s settled in days, no hours now when it comes to climate and Covid. What a bunch of slackers these mathematicians have been.
Google bard…. “Tell me how to solve these ancient mathematical problems”
2 + 2 = something like 4
Seen on a bumper sticker:
2 + 2 = 5
for very large values of 2
To which I’d add, I’m sure mathematicians will allow challenges to these solutions. And that’s exactly the way it’s supposed to work.
But no challenges are permitted when it comes to Climate Change or Covid. Scientists must accept the official explanations, or be cancelled. Lose your job, lose your reputation, lose your career.
It’s all very medieval.
> 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2 <
Ha! That’s actually an old saying in physics.
For the curious, here’s an example. Let’s say you have a poor scale that can only measure weight to the nearest pound. You weigh a brick, and get 2 pounds. But the brick might actually weigh 2.4 pounds if measured to the nearest tenth of a pound.
So two 2-pound bricks together would weigh 5 pounds.
(2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, rounds to 5)
Hmm...at what point is one solution different from another?
Obviously if they’re all nonintersecting ellipses is the simple solution.
I’m having a hard time imagining 12000 different solutions with 3 bodies.
Thar old saying now also applies when a voting machine (computer) counts each 1 Democrat vote as 1.2 Democrat votes.
Its a very good Chinese Science Fiction novel.
“The Three Body Problem”, Liu Cixin
Get it. Its a very high concept bit of art.
You can’t be more accurate than your measuring device.
Been telling people that for years.
That’s why any claims of temperatures over thousands of years claiming accuracy to thousandths or even tenths of a degree by TREE RINGS are bullsh*t.
12000 different solutions that produce 12000 different orbital forecasts keeps actual behavior unpredictable.
> You can’t be more accurate than your measuring device. <
Right! And every measurement must include a calculated estimate of uncertainty. In other words, a range of possible values. Somewhere in that range is the true value.
When it comes to Climate Change, we are never given that range. This tells me that the “scientists” are just picking a value within that range, one that will best please their masters.
That’s more than just bad science. It’s dishonest behavior.
Just find a real number for pi....it drives me crazy.....22/7
Three-Body [30 episodes, Cixin Liu author ]
https://new-gomovies.online/watch-tv-show/three-body-season-1/SENG05Qb/vv34le64/lojah9kd-online-free.html
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