Playing God

Once upon a time I wanted to do chemistry

…but it’s never that easy. I searched for realistic chemistry emulation kits (I don’t want to make actual sodium metal in my kitchen yet) but all of them are either enterprise-grade, expensive, or just way beyond my needs. So I went to bed and apparently spoke directly to god.

I dreamed of writing code that could simulate the universe perfectly down to the smallest possible detail, strictly typed and modular down to the individual quark. so I started writing it today. So far, I have written a typedef for the atom:

interface Atom {
    var neutrons:Int;
    var protons:Int;
    var electrons:Int;
    public var halflife:Null<Array<Float>>;
}

This is very basic but I think you get where I’m going with this.

Originally I was going to start with quarks and the standard model and work my way up (I even wrote a function to simulate weak interaction between quarks,) but then I realized that maybe it wasn’t such a hot idea to write quantum physics on a binary computer… So I decided to start at atoms instead. Some day I may even get to biology, once I finish writing functions that compute every property of every isotope of every element and how they interact.

This is an unimaginably ambitious project that I probably won’t ever finish, but it’s just too cool an idea for me to not do; so I’ve made the decision to make this repository public as I work on it. I’ll look through all pull requests and I’ll take any help I can get. yes, even from you.

The current goal is to have a construct of the periodic table with all attributes of the atoms filled out. Reacting atoms will be done through the AtomTools class, which currently only has isPrimordial and isStable.

yeah I know this is a stupid idea

–Crinfarr

p.s I know this is a short blog post with none of the pretty pictures I usually add. I’m tired and my brain is fried. Update when I figure out how to even begin thinking of how to track progress on this.