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- noun
Finding themotion , relative to one another, of twoobjects , where theposition of eachaffects the motion of the other. - noun humorous The difficulty in obtaining
employment for twopeople who wish toreside near one another.
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I was far from the first woman to have to choose between career and family. But in our case, there was the added wrinkle that both of us were seeking academic careers in physics, which severely limited our options. This challenge is common enough in the academic world that it has its own nickname borrowed from a well-known problem in physics — the “two-body problem.”
The Forgotten Half-Life of Women in Physics The MIT Press Reader 2025
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