Scott Tremaine, “Astrophysical Wonders” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Stability of the Solar System
Newton was able to understand in principle, that he could calculate the behaviour of all the planets in the solar system based on his law of gravity and his law of motion. The only system he was able to solve exactly was a simplified version in which there was just the sun and one planet. With modern computers, you can follow the solar system for its lifetime - it's very sensitive to initial conditions. In five billion years or seven billion years, when the sun turns into a red gianta jupiter will be,. the position of j Jupiter will be 's this butterfly effecty' On the other hand, when you do numerical calculations, in about 99 % of the systems that you try
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