Nope. We can do calculations that involve n-bodies, of which obviously 3-body is part, but they involve using the 2-body solution of Newton for all unique pairs in a simulation.
A separate general three body solution probably does exist, but no-ones found it.
If found, it would quite possibly revolutionise n-body modelling, and prove useful to space science (if, and only if, it sped up calculations), but I doubt astronomers would care much.
Having been through the peer review process with my work many times I'm familiar with this sort of thing, believe me, the statement in the original comment is nasty if your the author.
I can see why the submitter edited it, because people unfamiliar with the peer review process probably wouldn't get what a kick in the teeth the sentence is.
Since the work based on the assumption that the hypothesis is true is in itself valuable, it will still be used.
It's just that a proof, if found, will elevate who-ever finds it to the status of mathematical superstar.
Consider this, we are still finding proof of various of Einstein's theories, but work based on his has been of real value for decades.
Here's another example that makes me sound all clever because I know it.
Newtons equations, and his entire body of work, completely failed to explain how it is that the moon can orbit the earth while the earth orbits the sun, and we *still* don't have the equation to explain that bugger.
There are specific n-body solutions, I've written one myself, but a solution for the general case? Nope, never been done.
Louis Pasteur spent most of his life on that particular problem, as have many other prominent scientists, all to no avail. We found a use for Newtons work regardless, and Einstein extended it successfully, even with that glaring hole.
Thanks, actually I already tried this, and it's not that good, unfortunately. It lags rather a lot on my machine, and the text rendering is quite poor too.
Not that it isn't a nice start, but that's why I specified 'native'. I want Kwrite working on windows without needing anything but windows QT.
A colleague had a Latex Template too, but he'd been using latex regularly for years.
I have considered going back now its all done and reformatting the completed document with Latex to have my own version printed, but its a lot of work.
I'd left that as an idea to be pondered once I have some free time, which hasn't happened yet. Bloody journal paper deadlines..
Its not so much how hard Latex is, but about how easy Word in in comparison. Ok, the end result may not be as pretty, but I found the template I used provided all the Thesis features I needed.
Incidentally, by Dissertation do you mean other than for a Ph.D? In the UK its Thesis for a Ph.D, dissertation for everything else.
Certainly in the case of my undergrad Dissertation, for which I used Latex, the correctness requirements weren't so stringent (read: torturous), so the task of document assembly was easier, making using Latex also easy.
I found just assembling the content for my Thesis to be so hard that I wanted the process of writing it to be as simple as possible. My professor advised I not use Latex for just that reason.
I hear that if you don't have a decent template Word can be a horrific tool for Thesis writing, but the one I used (University of Waterloo Thesis template) made it all extremely easy.
Incidentally, this template also kept my figures and tables properly number automatically, as well as chapters, and sections. I hadn't known Word could do this.
Yes, much. I tried Tex, and when you are considering a 250+ page document, its not so easy to manage. Ok, Knuth wrote 'art of computer science' with it, but he had editors.
I'll look at idea rover, I have some journal papers to write next, so if it's good I'll use it, thanks for the tip.
However, its not just what's good for you, something like a thesis has to be viewable/editable by your supervisor, so they need to have the program installed too.
I have yet to find an easy way to get a professor to install a program I need them to use.
Related to the post: I've not written a doctoral thesis, but I was wondering what makes MS Office better suited than OpenOffice.org/StarOffice for writing this type of document?
Templates. Microsoft Word has a wealth of excellent templates for writing a Thesis, OpenOffice has some, but they weren't as good when I tried them. Also, and this is entirely subjective, the formatting in OpenOffice leaves a lot to be desired in some areas (bullet lists for instance).
This may have changed in the last year, but once you starting writing a major document it's not easy to change, and I saw no reason to try.
For reference, I used the University of Waterloo (Canada) Thesis template.
I started off trying to use Tex, but that's a lot of work, and a thesis is so hard as it stands that you want the editing environment to be as easy as possible. Trust me on this.
Which again makes me feel that it's utterly hilarious that Microsoft wants you to pay for something that corrects defects in their other software that you already bought.
They used to charge you for reporting bugs to them as well.
Mind you, so did almost every other software company.
I see absolutely no reason to update from office 2003. If Microsoft start down the 'future versions won't open your files' crap then I'll jump ship to OpenOffice. For now though I see no compelling reason to switch. I would imagine this is aimed firmly at corporate customers.
Yeah, I know, its not fashionable to actually like office 2003, but its a good product, I've always liked it. Besides, ever tried writing a doctoral thesis in OpenOffice? I have, it's not easy.
It's very important to get the message through to lawmakers and the public that filesharing, while it can be abused, is inherently perfectly legitimate, and should be kept both legal and technically possible.
No problem, say, you wouldn't happen to have millions of pounds and a whole bunch of lobbyists/lawyers we could use would you?
That's what it will take.
The media companies see p2p as a deadly threat, so they will just keep hammering on about it, rewording, restating, and lobbying different groups, until they eventually get what they want.
That's how things seem to work in the US (not US bashing here, that's a genuine observation), and the technique is being applied in the EU by the same companies.
Not that the EU is perfect. Not for nothing is it known as the french farmers fan club. Those guys get pretty much anything they want.
what this means is that those of us who caan code are going to have to go back to the textbooks and re-learn our trade. I've been writing serial code for years, with some multi-threading for really intensive tasks.
When this turns up, the idea of a monolithic program will be all but out of the window. It'll be 'nano software components' or something. I predict a sharp rise in the use of higher level languages like Python. Ever tried multi threaded coding in C? Sure, it can be done, but it aint easy.
That's something of an extreme approach. Not exactly the sort of behaviour that would endear a company to its customers.
If your EC2 account got hacked (which may happen if its worth the effort), you would end up hacked, billed, and having quite possibly a hell of a fight to get your cash back.
I haven't owned a tv for over a decade (I'm 42, so well into the age range that is supposed to like TV).
Its the advertising really. I can't stand it. The time I loved TV was in the seventies. Since then my use of tv has waned, and now died.
Now I buy series on dvd if I decide I like them. Usually this deciding is via encountering them on the internet.
In this way I got to watch five seasons of Stargate without ever having seen an episode before then. It was awesome, much more fun then suffering years of waiting and those damn adverts.
Also, the first time I saw Firefly, all the episodes were in the right order.
My son doesn't share my dislike of adverts, but even so he doesn't watch tv much. He uses his pc for entertainment, as I do.
actually I used to use this trick to take a break when I was a student nurse in the nineties.
I'd pick up an xray or some notes that I knew wouldn't be needed, and go off walking around the hospital. No-one on my ward would question why I was gone, because I was just the student, I got sent places all the time. I found I could go round any department without being challenged, people just assumed I was meant to be there.
Incidentally, student nurse uniforms are easy to buy.
It worked for two years, then I got busy, what with exams and all, so I stopped doing it. I never got caught though.
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If your interested my specific solution resides in this software (of my own creation).
http://code.google.com/p/nmod/
Admit it, you're just hoping the new footage has nude shots of Maria.
I mean, she got me hot.....
Nope. We can do calculations that involve n-bodies, of which obviously 3-body is part, but they involve using the 2-body solution of Newton for all unique pairs in a simulation.
A separate general three body solution probably does exist, but no-ones found it.
If found, it would quite possibly revolutionise n-body modelling, and prove useful to space science (if, and only if, it sped up calculations), but I doubt astronomers would care much.
A better translation would be 'FAIL!'
Having been through the peer review process with my work many times I'm familiar with this sort of thing, believe me, the statement in the original comment is nasty if your the author.
I can see why the submitter edited it, because people unfamiliar with the peer review process probably wouldn't get what a kick in the teeth the sentence is.
Since the work based on the assumption that the hypothesis is true is in itself valuable, it will still be used.
It's just that a proof, if found, will elevate who-ever finds it to the status of mathematical superstar.
Consider this, we are still finding proof of various of Einstein's theories, but work based on his has been of real value for decades.
Here's another example that makes me sound all clever because I know it.
Newtons equations, and his entire body of work, completely failed to explain how it is that the moon can orbit the earth while the earth orbits the sun, and we *still* don't have the equation to explain that bugger.
There are specific n-body solutions, I've written one myself, but a solution for the general case? Nope, never been done.
Louis Pasteur spent most of his life on that particular problem, as have many other prominent scientists, all to no avail. We found a use for Newtons work regardless, and Einstein extended it successfully, even with that glaring hole.
you stuck that on her! I saw you do it!
for a great many internet users the same result could be achieved with five pieces of WOW gold.
Thanks, actually I already tried this, and it's not that good, unfortunately. It lags rather a lot on my machine, and the text rendering is quite poor too.
Not that it isn't a nice start, but that's why I specified 'native'. I want Kwrite working on windows without needing anything but windows QT.
This is nice, but what I want to see is kwrite ported natively to windows.
A colleague had a Latex Template too, but he'd been using latex regularly for years.
I have considered going back now its all done and reformatting the completed document with Latex to have my own version printed, but its a lot of work.
I'd left that as an idea to be pondered once I have some free time, which hasn't happened yet. Bloody journal paper deadlines..
Its not so much how hard Latex is, but about how easy Word in in comparison. Ok, the end result may not be as pretty, but I found the template I used provided all the Thesis features I needed.
Incidentally, by Dissertation do you mean other than for a Ph.D? In the UK its Thesis for a Ph.D, dissertation for everything else.
Certainly in the case of my undergrad Dissertation, for which I used Latex, the correctness requirements weren't so stringent (read: torturous), so the task of document assembly was easier, making using Latex also easy.
I found just assembling the content for my Thesis to be so hard that I wanted the process of writing it to be as simple as possible. My professor advised I not use Latex for just that reason.
I hear that if you don't have a decent template Word can be a horrific tool for Thesis writing, but the one I used (University of Waterloo Thesis template) made it all extremely easy.
Incidentally, this template also kept my figures and tables properly number automatically, as well as chapters, and sections. I hadn't known Word could do this.
Personally I'm leaning towards converting to Frisbeetarianism.
(The belief that when you die your soul goes onto the roof and gets stuck.)
is that orthodox noodliness, or new age noodliness?
Yes, much. I tried Tex, and when you are considering a 250+ page document, its not so easy to manage. Ok, Knuth wrote 'art of computer science' with it, but he had editors.
I use Tex for smaller documents all the time.
I'll look at idea rover, I have some journal papers to write next, so if it's good I'll use it, thanks for the tip.
However, its not just what's good for you, something like a thesis has to be viewable/editable by your supervisor, so they need to have the program installed too.
I have yet to find an easy way to get a professor to install a program I need them to use.
Related to the post: I've not written a doctoral thesis, but I was wondering what makes MS Office better suited than OpenOffice.org/StarOffice for writing this type of document?
Templates. Microsoft Word has a wealth of excellent templates for writing a Thesis, OpenOffice has some, but they weren't as good when I tried them. Also, and this is entirely subjective, the formatting in OpenOffice leaves a lot to be desired in some areas (bullet lists for instance).
This may have changed in the last year, but once you starting writing a major document it's not easy to change, and I saw no reason to try.
For reference, I used the University of Waterloo (Canada) Thesis template.
I started off trying to use Tex, but that's a lot of work, and a thesis is so hard as it stands that you want the editing environment to be as easy as possible. Trust me on this.
Which again makes me feel that it's utterly hilarious that Microsoft wants you to pay for something that corrects defects in their other software that you already bought.
They used to charge you for reporting bugs to them as well.
Mind you, so did almost every other software company.
I see absolutely no reason to update from office 2003.
If Microsoft start down the 'future versions won't open your files' crap then I'll jump ship to OpenOffice. For now though I see no compelling reason to switch. I would imagine this is aimed firmly at corporate customers.
Yeah, I know, its not fashionable to actually like office 2003, but its a good product, I've always liked it. Besides, ever tried writing a doctoral thesis in OpenOffice? I have, it's not easy.
It's very important to get the message through to lawmakers and the public that filesharing, while it can be abused, is inherently perfectly legitimate, and should be kept both legal and technically possible.
No problem, say, you wouldn't happen to have millions of pounds and a whole bunch of lobbyists/lawyers we could use would you?
That's what it will take.
The media companies see p2p as a deadly threat, so they will just keep hammering on about it, rewording, restating, and lobbying different groups, until they eventually get what they want.
That's how things seem to work in the US (not US bashing here, that's a genuine observation), and the technique is being applied in the EU by the same companies.
Not that the EU is perfect. Not for nothing is it known as the french farmers fan club. Those guys get pretty much anything they want.
what this means is that those of us who caan code are going to have to go back to the textbooks and re-learn our trade. I've been writing serial code for years, with some multi-threading for really intensive tasks.
When this turns up, the idea of a monolithic program will be all but out of the window. It'll be 'nano software components' or something.
I predict a sharp rise in the use of higher level languages like Python. Ever tried multi threaded coding in C?
Sure, it can be done, but it aint easy.
OVER 9000!!!!!!11111one
That's something of an extreme approach. Not exactly the sort of behaviour that would endear a company to its customers.
If your EC2 account got hacked (which may happen if its worth the effort), you would end up hacked, billed, and having quite possibly a hell of a fight to get your cash back.
And what if the credit card in question is stolen?
I haven't owned a tv for over a decade (I'm 42, so well into the age range that is supposed to like TV).
Its the advertising really. I can't stand it. The time I loved TV was in the seventies. Since then my use of tv has waned, and now died.
Now I buy series on dvd if I decide I like them. Usually this deciding is via encountering them on the internet.
In this way I got to watch five seasons of Stargate without ever having seen an episode before then. It was awesome, much more fun then suffering years of waiting and those damn adverts.
Also, the first time I saw Firefly, all the episodes were in the right order.
My son doesn't share my dislike of adverts, but even so he doesn't watch tv much. He uses his pc for entertainment, as I do.
actually I used to use this trick to take a break when I was a student nurse in the nineties.
I'd pick up an xray or some notes that I knew wouldn't be needed, and go off walking around the hospital. No-one on my ward would question why I was gone, because I was just the student, I got sent places all the time. I found I could go round any department without being challenged, people just assumed I was meant to be there.
Incidentally, student nurse uniforms are easy to buy.
It worked for two years, then I got busy, what with exams and all, so I stopped doing it. I never got caught though.