The scientific method has guided the development of science over the last four hundred years. The method involves carefully recording observations, formulating a meaningful hypothesis, and rigorously testing the hypothesis. Based on the outcomes of these tests, the hypothesis is refined over and over again till it can explain the observations. Scientists are taught correlation does not imply causation. For them, it is not enough to know that something happens; they need to understand the underlying mechanisms that cause it to happen.

The three-body problem is a special case of the n-body problem. Unlike two-body problems, no general closed-form solution exists. However, researchers from the University Of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge made an attempt to solve this with the help of deep learning. The 3 body problem has been long-standing as one of the most unsolved significant ones so far in the scientific community. Significant because, predicting where a certain object will end up in future, has many applications.