Planet Earth Wobbles As It Spins, and Now Scientists Know Why
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Dumb scientists...
Being a correct Scientist is the difficult part.
One has to have your theories and then test them out against the reality around us.
I think the wobble is decreasing because the Earth is trying to balance itself. An example could be a fluid damper on an engine. As it rotates, weights move around inside the fluid to balance the engine. Now the Earth is trying to do the same thing but the way it is doing it is by North America moving west and Asia is moving east. I believe that is why the Earth has the Ring of Fire.
There are much smarter people on here than I when it comes to how it all works but I just think about things in the simplest ways to make them make sense. How close am I???
JOKE :)
As for the N body problem, there are a few closed solutions to the 3-body equations. Most dynamic models are not analytic, so one must use something like perturbation methods for solutions which fit reality.
There is no model of real world that does not require real data for solution. A model does not just spit out a real world solution without data, therefor the need to fit variables to reality. If the model is analytic, closed solutions can be found but to give real results, there still must be real data measurements for each case applied to reality.
I used to teach survival at a local university, although fun and challenging to figure out how to survive and get back home living at the level of subsistence and what you can accomplish on any given day would not be fun for an extended period of time and you quickly realize that even if you are skilled a simple change in short term weather can decimate the tribe.
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