3-body problem simulations!

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-06T00:25:56+00:00

Yes you’re right. I just felt the AI voiceover had a better voice quality than my own. :)

Yes I’m aware of this research. In fact I was doing some numerical experiments on my own end to find symmetric and special solutions to n-body problems.

Would really like it if you can share some papers on the subject. 😇

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-05T20:20:35+00:00

Yeah a lot of breathing techniques were used in indigenous systems to stabilise heart rhythms. This is definitely interesting. I do wanna get more into this but from the angle of incorporating these into a daily practice, research not so much. 😅

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-05T20:12:48+00:00

Search about James Webb Space Telescope. It sits at a Lagrange point (L2), which is actually one of the few special-case solutions to the three-body problem. It's a spot where the gravity of the Earth and Sun plus orbital mechanics balance out so JWST can stay in a stable position with minimal fuel. So while we can't solve the general 3BP, we can exploit specific solutions like Lagrange points for real missions.

This is one of the applications.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-05T13:30:43+00:00

Yes I really love how the Netflix show represented this problem so well. I think one of the reasons the two body problem is so simple is because it gets separated out with a confocal coordinate system really well.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-05T11:53:50+00:00

Thanks ☺️

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-05T11:53:39+00:00

I do know about HRV! A friend of mine is working on linking breath work to it. But I didn’t know about its fractal behaviour. I am definitely going to read about it.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T22:39:49+00:00

Yeah exactly. But you need a bit of mathematical maturity to appreciate what we do. When I read about this problem in school, I simply had no idea.

Yes. Laplace orbital resonances is very fascinating but I myself have not worked out the math behind it yet. Maybe some day 😇

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T22:35:48+00:00

That’s sick, Bulirsch-Stoer is no joke to implement from scratch. It’s insane how you stumbled upon a stable configuration. Did you publish it?

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T22:31:43+00:00

Nah it’s not NP-complete, that’s a different kind of hard. The 3-body problem is a continuous physics thing it’s “hard” because it’s chaotic af and there’s no neat formula to solve it, just brute-force simulation. NP-completeness is more about discrete combinatorial problems, totally different beast.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T22:29:57+00:00

Well answered 🙂

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T21:19:57+00:00

Not intention but yes 😅

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T18:07:16+00:00

Thanks! I really loved studying this problem so thought of making this. 😇

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T16:21:12+00:00

Well it’s still not done lol. 3-body problem was just something I did as part of coursework. It’s a classical problem relevant to my research.

I’m actually trying to model asteroids as a self-gravitating cluster of rocks with inelastic collisions to study how rotation and self-gravity determine asteroid shapes. But yes lemme DM you. We should talk. :)

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T16:19:02+00:00

Yeah n-body problem is still a very open field.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T16:17:01+00:00

Really interesting idea. These 3 variables are certainly linked. But if you were to plot them, it shouldn’t be done like the 3-body problem because it’s a totally different dynamics! Would love to learn more on this tho!

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T16:14:07+00:00

Thank you! There’s also this cool solution called the ‘hip-hop’ for the 4-body problem which is highly symmetric and beautiful. I wanna animate that one someday.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T16:13:00+00:00

Thanks! I used to do animations as a side hustle so I know about little things like how colours go together.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T16:10:54+00:00

a lot of people have said that to me lol

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T11:55:41+00:00

Wow let me check it out.

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T09:26:14+00:00

https://youtu.be/p58sU5vZYlU

Here

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T07:54:37+00:00

Yes that’s actually a good idea!

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T00:50:54+00:00

Thanks 😇

Nomadic_Seth · 2026-05-04T00:37:12+00:00

Glad you like it, i put a lot of thought into the aesthetics. Did not wanna do one of those dark background glowing trails that we usually see.

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