small effect produced bythe movement of the third body in the system. As he experimented, he was relieved to discover that in most of the situations, the possible orbits varied only slightlyfrom the initial 2-body orbit, and were still stable but what occurred during further experimentation was a shock. Poincare discovered that even in some of thesmallest approximations some orbits behaved in an erratic unstable manner. His calculations showed that even a minute gravitational pull from a third body mightcause a planet to wobble and fly out of orbit all together.6 PART II: Chaos in the solar system, The end of Earth. Poincares discovery was not fully understood until 1953 by Russian physicist A. N. Kolmogorov. Initially scientists believed that in theory they could break up a complicated system into its components before experimentation because any changes in patternswould be small and not effect an established construct such as an orbit. Kolmogorov was not prepared to accept that the whole universe is a fraction of a decimalpoint away from self-destruction. Unfortunately his research didnt help.7 Kolmgorov concluded, from his own calculations, that the solar system wont break up under its own motion provided that the influence of an additionalgravitational source was no bigger than a fly approximately 7000 miles away, and the cycles per planetary year did not occur in a simple ratio like 1:2 1:3 or 2:3and so on.7 But, what happens when the planets years form a simple ratio? Well, that would mean that with each orbit, the disturbance is amplified due to a steady input ofgravitational energy. It creates a resonance feedback effect much like a normal microphone amplifier. Say you lie an amplifiers input mic directly in front of its output speaker. Any sound that enters the microphone will be played back through the speaker louder, thatplayback will be picked up by the mic and amplified once again, eventually the volume will re...
