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The planetary orbit in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’ is random and chaotic, but could it exist?
Note: The following article contains spoilers about the Netflix series “3 Body Problem.” I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called “Placet is a Crazy Place” by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown. In Brown’s story, Placet is a planet in a figure-of-eight orbit around two stars, one of which is composed of ordinary matter, the other of anti-matter. The closeness of the two stars cause time and space to become wonderfully distorted so that Placet can eclipse itself. But, intriguingly, the orbit is assumed to be stable and predictable. Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin’s...
'A historic day' for the CHIPS and Science Act
ALBANY, NY (WENY)--THURSDAY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ANNOUNCED UP TO A $6 BILLION AGREEMENT WITH MICRON UNDER THE CHIPS AND SCIENCE ACT. THIS FUNDING WILL SUPPORT THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO FABS IN UPSTATE NEW YORK INTENDING TO PRODUCE ADVANCED MEMORY CHIP MANUFACTURING AND CREATE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS. United States...
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