• Question: how would you be able to make your own galaxy

    Asked by withington to Sam on 17 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by rosieredxxx.
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      Sam Geen answered on 17 Jun 2013:

      So in my job I do supercomputer simulations of galaxies – you take what we know about gravity, how much matter there is in the universe, how atoms interact, how stars are made, etc, and put it all into something a bit like a very complicated videogame (it’s a bit like how they figure out the weather forecast, except in space!)

      However, if you simplify things, you can run the same program on a normal computer. So my idea would be to take the program that I use and set it up so that you can run it on your computer. Then you could fly around it in 3D like you can in a videogame.

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