ABSTRACT
Objects in motion, like satellites in space, water molecules in a stream, and electrons in a diamond, have long intrigued scientists. During the past few centuries, scientists were under the impression that the motion of an object could, at least in theory, be completely understood if one could formulate accurately enough a set of equations that described certain attributes of the object such as its position, velocity and acceleration. That this premise was not universally true was observed around 1900 by the famous French mathematician Henri Poincare´ (1854-1912) in his studies of the three-body problem.
