two-body problem


a situation in which an academic must choose between giving priority to his/her career or his/her significant other, especially with regard to his/her location of residence;

relocating to an inst-tution based on proximity to one’s significant other at the cost of prestige, or relocating for a prestigious position at the expense of one’s relationship with his/her significant other;

a system whose solution gives the equations of geographic motion of an academic and his/her significant other, often solvable by separation into center of m-ss motion and displacement vector motion
-“she chose uc-irvine over mit?”
-“yeah, it’s a two-body problem. her boyfriend works at ucla.”

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