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by xelxebar 2368 days ago
That paper is from 1993. Hard to believe that it took such a long time to find a concrete pathology in a Newtonian system. Now the question is whether these blowups only occur on initial condition sets of zero measure.

John Baez also has a nice, accessible series of articles called "Stuggles with the Continuum" [0]. As a side product, it gives a nice perspective on the development of modern physics as a series of attempts to fix these infinities (only to create more subtle one).

[0]:https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/struggles-wi...