| ▲ | dreamcompiler 4 hours ago | |
Yes. It's kind of like the halting problem: You cannot write a general computer program that will analyze the source code of any random other computer program and tell you if it will halt. You can write a program that will analyze the code of a few specific other programs and tell you if they will halt. You just can't do it in general. The 3-body problem is like that. Except it's much harder to find stable 3-body problems than computer programs that are predictable. | ||
| ▲ | IAmBroom 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> Except it's much harder to find stable 3-body problems than computer programs that are predictable. Proving that statement is true might be harder than either of the other two issues. | ||