{"id":100529,"date":"2020-01-05T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/researchers-crack-newtons-elusive-3-body-problem-that-has-baffled-scientists-for-centuries"},"modified":"2020-01-05T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T20:04:24","slug":"researchers-crack-newtons-elusive-3-body-problem-that-has-baffled-scientists-for-centuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/researchers-crack-newtons-elusive-3-body-problem-that-has-baffled-scientists-for-centuries","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Crack Newton\u2019s Elusive \u20183-Body\u2019 Problem That Has Baffled Scientists for Centuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-crack-newtons-elusive-3-body-problem-that-has-baffled-scientists-for-centuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming \u201cFor every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.\u201d These laws laid the foundation to understand our solar system and, more broadly, to understand the relationship between a body of mass and the forces that act upon it. However, Newton\u2019s groundbreaking work also created a pickle that has baffled scientists for centuries: The Three-Body Problem.<\/p>\n<p>After using the laws of motion to describe how planet Earth orbits the sun, Newton assumed that these laws would help us calculate what would happen if a third celestial body, such as the moon, were added to the mix. However, in reality, three-body equations became much more difficult to solve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been nearly 350 years since Sir Isaac Newton outlined the laws of motion, claiming \u201cFor every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.\u201d These laws laid the foundation to understand our solar system and, more broadly, to understand the relationship between a body of mass and the forces that act upon it. However, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}