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VWolf

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8. Isn't gravitation also chaotic for anything more than 2 bodies?

Reply to longship (Reply #5)

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 09:48 AM

Jun 2012

I seem to remember reading that once.

I'm guessing that the model they're using treats each galaxy as a single body (or some sort of extended body), and they're only looking at gross behavior over time.

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