September 2011
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Watchcwnl:
Most Complete Universe Simulations Visualized in 3D
Run on NASA AMES’ supercomputer constellation, the evolution of the largest structures in the Universe are here simulated. This Bolshoi simulation (based on the Lambda Cold Dark Matter model) is designed to study how dark matter halos evolved.
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Watchskepttv:
Creating Universes with Digital Bits
In 1970, a mathematician named John Horton Conway devised a self-sustaining simulation based on several simple rules. What he didn’t know is that his “Game of Life” would create a whole new field of mathematics and cause theorists to wonder if our own universe could be the emergent result of a simple set of instructions. Could everything in our...
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