Atom Emulator/Simulator Software?

[Michael Snyder]

I work with complex equipment on a daily basis. One of the ways I teach the use of such equipment is to use software emulators.

I\'ve been thinking this would be great tool in physics. I would love to be able to use a first person shooter interface to drive atoms around. Shoot photons at other atoms, magnetic fields, swap electrons with other atoms, the works.

What do y\'all think?

[Fernanda]

great...who\'s going to program it?

[Michael Snyder]

It would have a niche market with high schools and colleges. Most first person shooters have a good phyics engine build into them anyway.

I\'m guessing a college student could code it.

Multiplayer. Like a flight sim, but with atoms. Catch this, you and another player crash your atoms together, and they break into the correct quarks, etc.

[Edited on 5-12-2004 by Michael Snyder]

[lysdexia]

Try patching Atom in a Box (http://www.daugerresearch.com/orbitals/) (Apple article (http://web.archive.org/web/20011007062311/http://www.apple.com/education/hed/aua0101/atominabox/)), or the Solar System Simulator there.

Fernanda, since I complained about your merchandise, maybe these will offer some inspiration. Orbitals, after all, last longer than flowers and diamonds and are prettier when magnified than those or a fotograf could be; they must be a geek\'s best friend?

[Edited on 27,Thu.01,Jan.2005 by lysdexia]