Newton's three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci

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Fabio Pacucci |

TED-Ed

• August 2020

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/newton-s-three-body-problem-explained-fabio-pacucci In 2009, researchers ran a simple experiment. They took everything we know about our solar system and calculated where every planet would be up to 5 billion years in the future. They ran over 2,000 simulations, and the astonishing variety in results revealed that our solar system may be much less stable than it seems. Fabio Pacucci explores the n-body problem and the motion of gravitating objects. Lesson by Fabio Pacucci, directed by Hype CG.