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From: wrf@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (W. Randolph Franklin)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: the multi-body problem
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 00:29:04 EDT
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Summary: can be chaotic

I think that multi-body systems can become chaotic in the sense
that small perturbations can grow to macroscopic size. Thus it is
impossible to predict the exact state in the future even with an
arbitrarily small delta-t iteration.

wrf@ucbernie.arpa