#Radio Animation?
03-Feb-95 10:58:08
Sb: #150706-#Radio Animation?
Fm: David Rhoten 71450,2654
To: david W. mennenoh 71561,2343
The difference is that planetary motion is a LINEAR system. Sensitivity to
Initial Conditions (the thing that makes non-linear systems difficult to
predict) is not a characteristic of linear systems, and hence, one has no
trouble predicting EXACTLY what will occur. Newtonian physics is all about
linear systems. Until Chaos theory, non-linear systems were just considered
unsolvable and unknowable and random.
Dave