Thirteen New Answers to an Age-Old Physics Puzzle

Computer simulations provide a wealth of new solutions to the fiendishly difficult three-body problem.

By Bill Andrews
Jan 14, 2014 4:00 PMNov 12, 2019 4:36 AM
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Reprinted with permission from Milovan Šuvakov and Veljko Dmitrašinovic´/Physical Review Letters 110, 114301 Copyright 2013 by the American Physical Society.

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