On the way to the Holloway district, where Arsenal FC’s football stadium is located, you can take a little detour and stop in the middle of London at the Guildhall Library, where a scene from this new Netflix series was filmed: “3 Body Problem “. Three-body problem. The American television makers were allowed to adapt the thrilling science fiction books of the Chinese writer Liu Cixin into films – and thus also had to deal with the so-called three-body problem of celestial mechanics, which the smartest mathematicians can only solve numerically to this day. They do not manage to reliably predict what the path of three bodies will be under the influence of Newton’s law of gravity, i.e. under the influence of mutual attraction.
But anyone who thinks that the three-body problem is complicated probably doesn’t know the FC Bayern Munich football team and their two-faced problem.
