Has anyone else made one star the largest object, and then destroyed it?

[Vohn_exel]

One of my favorite things to do is just keep adding mass until something is so large that it literally eats the whole universe. If you zoom in, you'll go "inside" it, and you can only zoom out once because it's so huge. Then, I destroy it with the "explode" button.

It doesn't reform from it's gravity. It makes like eight or so smaller suns that all group together. It looks ALOT like the nucleus of an atom. Do it with a bunch of them and it still looks like you're looking at enormous atoms. If this is how space and gravity would really react, it's kind of freaky.

[ChemicalBR0]

physics is physics
regardless if you're applying it to atoms or planets.

if you think about it the structure of an atom is very much like planets (electrons) orbiting the sun (nucleus)


to get your sun to reform, change from bounce to collision mode

[jimthev]

Err, while it is fun to think that electrons go around the in an atom like planets, it really doesn't work that way.  The physics of large objects is very different from the physics of small objects.

A simulator for small objects might be interesting, but I'd be hard pressed to even imagine what it would look like or how it could be made.

[ChemicalBR0]

then why do they show atoms as having that structure in books and the like.

I'm not arguing with you, just wondering why they show that if it's not true.

Im sure scientists are just out to confuse people "if we confuse them enough they won't be able to question our ideas"

[Stevodoran]

Just press ''y'' to launch a torpedo that destroys anything 

[Vohn_exel]

physics is physics
regardless if you're applying it to atoms or planets.

if you think about it the structure of an atom is very much like planets (electrons) orbiting the sun (nucleus)


to get your sun to reform, change from bounce to collision mode

Actually it's already on collision mode. It only happens to me when I make the sun so large that it literally IS the entire universe, lol. It's so huge the planets and things are inside it. But, if you break it apart, it looks just like a nucleus of an atom. It's pretty cool looking.

[atomic7732]

then why do they show atoms as having that structure in books and the like.

I'm not arguing with you, just wondering why they show that if it's not true.

Science always changes. That's the older model, and it's much easier to represent than whatever the newest one is...

[Grand Architect]

then why do they show atoms as having that structure in books and the like.

I'm not arguing with you, just wondering why they show that if it's not true.

Im sure scientists are just out to confuse people "if we confuse them enough they won't be able to question our ideas"

1) Atoms are covered by Quantum Physics and the stars and planets are covered by Astrophysics. The current holy grail of Physics is a unified field theory to unite Quantum Physics and Astrophysics into a single field by combining the four known forces of the universe (Gravity, Electromagnetic, Weak force and Strong force).

2) It's a symbol not an actual model of the atom (much like Valentine heart candy isn't shaped like an actual heart). Electrons, Protons, and Neutrons obit a nucleus in what is called a probability cloud. At that level particles are greatly affected by small forces like light waves bouncing off them, so even trying to observe the structure of an atom distorts its structure (known as observer bias). It's like trying to find the current point of earth's obit by firing moons at it. So we can't describe for sure what that structure looks like only give a probability of what it is.

(Please note I haven't been in a Physics class for ten years and that was High School Physics, so I maybe corrected)

[Dan Dixon]

Err, while it is fun to think that electrons go around the in an atom like planets, it really doesn't work that way.  The physics of large objects is very different from the physics of small objects.

This is true. Atoms, while often shown as little planets in orbit around a nucleus, don't actually work that way in reality.

[neutronium76]

One of my favorite things to do is just keep adding mass until something is so large that it literally eats the whole universe. If you zoom in, you'll go "inside" it, and you can only zoom out once because it's so huge. Then, I destroy it with the "explode" button.

It doesn't reform from it's gravity. It makes like eight or so smaller suns that all group together. It looks ALOT like the nucleus of an atom. Do it with a bunch of them and it still looks like you're looking at enormous atoms. If this is how space and gravity would really react, it's kind of freaky.

What PC do you have? I mean: How powerful is it? This was the 1st thing I tried with US in my PC and the simulation became very very slow but, yes, what you describe is very true and very freaky, only it is happening very very slowly on my machine. My PC specs are:
Core2Quad Extreme QX9770 CPU @ 3.2GHz, 4GB DDR2@1066MHz RAM, Nvidia 8600GT with 512MB RAM, 2xWesternDigital VelociRaptors SATA2 10000RPM HDDs

[Darvince]

I did that and Universe Sandbox crashed.