Re: Stupid Question related to Bohr Theory

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

Meaning that the field equations (which will tell us the 
gravitational field of the two bodies) and the geodesic 
deviation equation (which will tell us how each one moves in that 
field) are nonlinear and coupled and therefore the two body problem 
is analytically too intractable to solve exactly. There are some 
restricted instances of solutions in various approximations (almost 
newtonian, lower number of dimensions, and so on) but mostly this is 
still done by very crude numerical approximation. There are some nice 
images on the NCSA web site at University of Illinois for some of 
these numerical solutions.

> On Nov. 18 Leigh Palmer wrote:
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> [.................]
> > In case anyone doesn't
> > know it already, the two body problem has not been solved in
> > GR in the sense that it (the Kepler problem) has been solved
> > in Newtonian mechanics.
>
> Leigh, 
>
> Would you expand on this?  Sounds interesting.
>
> Thank you,
> Steven 
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>
>
> Steven T. Ratliff

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