This video explains the science behind the three-body problem, exploring why predicting the motion of three interacting bodies is so complex and why it matters in physics and astronomy. Automatic ...
Nestled in the Milky Way Galaxy four light-years away from the Earth, Trisolaris is a planet in a three-star solar system. The stars move in erratic orbits that follow no clear patterns—this is the ...
The Kuiper Belt object Altjira was thought to be a binary, but closer analysis suggests that it is highly likely to be a triple system This raises the question of the three-body problem; if Altjira ...
3 Body Problem is Netflix’s adaptation of the famed sci-fi series by Liu Cixin, a sci-fi series that arrived with decent reviews on a very large budget, raising questions about whether it would be ...
I’ve yet to meet a physicist that didn’t believe in the beauty of the general theory of relativity—Einstein’s description of gravity as the curvature of spacetime. After all, it’s consistently ...
I met Andy maybe five or six years ago. We had spent some time together in Vancouver, but we hadn’t worked together before. It wasn’t until the premiere of “Babylon” in L.A. that Andy came up to me ...