Physics students start out all bright-eyed and optimistic when facing the two-body problem, which has neat analytical solutions. Then they encounter the three-body problem and transform into muscular, traumatized versions of themselves. The three-body problem is notoriously unsolvable in closed form and requires numerical approximations that make you question your career choices. Graduate students have been found sobbing in computer labs trying to simulate it since 1887.
From Optimism To Existential Crisis: The N-Body Problem

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