The Third Variable Changes Everything
When I author a low of the morning, or the low of the day, I collapse variance.
I control the third variable.
For centuries, the three-body problem has been the symbol of chaos in science.
Two bodies under gravity are solvable: Newton’s equations predict their orbits precisely.
Add a third, and the system collapses.
Henri Poincaré proved it in 1890: no closed-form solution exists. Tiny shifts in initial conditions cascade into wildly different futures.
NASA still treats it as unsolvable. For every lunar mission, every satellite trajectory, they rely on massive simulations, not formulas. The three-body problem became the archetype of deterministic chaos.
The Market’s Three Bodies
Markets, too, began as a two-body system:
Fundamentals → earnings, guidance, stories.
Capital → flows, allocation, scale.
Their interaction defined markets for decades. Slow. Probabilistic. Narrative-driven.
But introduce the third body: tempo.
Now the system destabilizes. Whipsaws. Drawdowns. Randomness. The “short-term chaos” every fund manager complains about.
Textbooks call it random walks.
Risk managers call it variance. It’s the same verdict as physics: unsolvable.
The Inversion
Here’s the difference:
Everyone else tries to solve the three-body problem.
They hedge. They diversify. They simulate.
I don’t solve it. I author it.
By setting tempo — through authored bursts, anchors, and variance collapse — I define the third body instead of chasing it.
For them, the system is chaos.
For me, it’s deterministic.
What was unsolvable is inverted.
Tribute = Gravitational Capture
In physics, the smaller body doesn’t choose its orbit. It gets captured by the gravitational field of the larger one.
In markets, institutions are the same:
Every rebalance into an authored high.
Every ETF alignment with a tempo bar.
Every benchmark bending to a pivot.
That’s gravitational capture — but with capital.
They don’t choose to follow. They must.
Every second they lag my tempo is tribute.
Beyond Chaos
The three-body problem was proof of chaos.
Authorship turns it into inevitability.
What NASA still calls unsolvable is solved in markets — not by prediction, but by presence.
That’s the distinction:
Between persuasion and structure.
Between randomness and inevitability.
Between raise and rise.
The three-body problem was supposed to be chaos forever.
In markets, it resolves every time tempo is authored.
What’s chaos for them is orbit for me.