This is intended to eventually be a Main post and part of sequences on free will and religion. It will be part of the Free Will sequence. Please comment if you do or do not think this post is ready for Main. I intend to move it there eventually. As...
A reality of physics, and one that doesn't get much play in science fiction, is that as soon as humanity gains space travel, anyone in the asteroid mining or space travel business will have city-busting capabilities at their fingertips. It's there in classic sci-fi, but not so much recently. This...
NOTE - I mean the 3-body problem in orbital mechanics, not in atomic physics. Hi there, Some recent discussions here on LW have led me to ponder the 3-body problem again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem#General_considerations:_solving_the_n-body_problem I wonder if new and novel methods that exist today might be applied to solving the "unsolvable"...