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RE: A Simulation of Stellar Gravity
January 16, 2013 at 10:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 16, 2013 at 10:15 pm by Cyberman.)
Each new book that comes out, I tend to approach thinking that this will be the one that jumps the shark, and each time I finish it thinking "Well, he's done it again!"
(January 16, 2013 at 6:51 am)dj-hato Wrote: i think this one is better
http://www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html
That's rather a fun one as well. I like the option to generate an accretion disc and then fire increasingly massive particles at it.
The best gravity simulator I've ever seen, though, is unfortunately not an online one but one you have to pay for, though a limited version is available as a free download. It's not all that pricey anyway. It's called
Universe Sandbox and is lots of fun, even the cutdown demo version which only lets you play with a set of preloaded scenarios. For instance, you can see just what the end of Return of the Jedi should have looked like when the Death Star exploded that close to Endor (hint: they wouldn't have been throwing a party there. Not for long anyway). I managed to get hold of the full version, so if you hear news reports of approaching doomsday comets or galaxies colliding with ours, it's probably just me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'