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dtgriscomtoday at 2:59 PM1 replyview on HN

These are meta-stable, in that only a perfect initial state (positions and velocities) will be stable. Even then, I expect quantum uncertainties would kick in at some point. (In the simulator, the default system goes unstable at about 500 seconds, probably due to the limits of floating point math.)


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forgotpwd16today at 3:44 PM

>probably due to the limits of floating point math

It's due to the integration scheme (2nd order, albeit symplectic) and time step (5e-4, ok if better scheme is used).