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Mathematics. Physics. Magnetic Chaotic Pendulum: adding magnetic forces to gravity gives this pendulum chaotic motion (sensitivity to slight differences in initial launch conditions). By Physicsfun, Used with permission.

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Alphonse Reitz3 years ago

I have everything I need to build one.. My kids (...and me) are going to love playing with it.

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Check this out:

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DigitalJ3 years ago

Magnetism:The closest thing to magic our world has to reference. 🙂

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Julien F.3 years ago

I would point out that it's not about adding magnetic forces, in the sense that magnetism has nothing special. What is important here is rotational symmetry breaking. So you get a 1st-order ODE of dimension 4 instead of 2, which is not protected by the Poincaré-Bendixson theorem

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Polymath math is like a chaotic pendulum. The more magnetic assumptions outside of the bounded assumptions of math, the more interesting it becomes depending on where you launch. e.g. the brief assumptions of psychosomatic medicine, supramolecular chemistry, nano-science/physics.

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Is it has any n-cycle?

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The n-body problem.

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