solution to n-body problem?

gaussianum

2nd March 2006 - 08:59 PM

http://www.physorg.com/news11345.html

This may well be one of the most important finds of the year; but is it able to solve problems like the n-body problem and others?

I can"t see how they would circumvent the difficulties inherent in solving the differential equations.

But it will probably be very useful for quantum mechanics.

CactusCritter

8th March 2006 - 07:21 AM

I would like to see what method has been developed inasmuch as some very brilliant physicists and mathematicians have attacked the multi-body problem as noted for over 200 years.

Does anyone know whether the Royal Society papers are accessible via the Internet and, if so, how much the access would cost.

I am sufficiently pessimistic that I'm not going to Google the Royal Society.

StevenA

8th March 2006 - 12:28 PM

Interesting article, thank you.

gaussianum

8th March 2006 - 07:41 PM

You can download Udwadia's papers here:

http://ame-www.usc.edu/bio/udwadia/publications1.html

I think he uses a symplectic approach (I think this is about lagrangians represented as complex matrixes). One should probably read his earlier papers (1999 and 2001, if I'm not mistaken), to understand his findings a little better.

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