You can blow up the Moon, should you wish, and marvel at the graphical splendour of our closest neighbour as she splatters the Earth with debris.

Introduce a rouge star into our solar system and watch as the gravitational forces rip the system to shreds and cause Earth to hurtle off into the void. There are many scenarios you can play around with in Universe Sandbox. But the problem I found, was that after creating my own solar system, seeing what would happen to Saturn’s rings should a planet stray too close, or exploding the size of the Earth to Jupiter proportions, I got slightly fed up and decided to do the ironing instead. God, allegedly, created the world, critters and generally the universe in seven days, correct? What did he do on the eighth? I’ll tell you, he got bored with Universe Sandbox and bought himself a Wii.ĭon’t get me wrong, Universe Sandbox is a staggering feat of technical simulation, the level and complexity of the Newtonian physics and mathematical Pythagorian tongue-twisters that have been programmed into this, rather epic, development would put NASA boffins to shame. Or was it an epiphany? Either way, my Higgs boson moment hit me with all the severity of a well aimed astronomical projectile, after my eighth play with Universe Sandbox. It was whilst playing around with Universe Sandbox, from Giant Army, that I was struck with an apostrophe.

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