2048 for physicists

http://milrivel.github.io/LHC/

by houseofshards • 12 years ago

153 33 12 years ago

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Phargo• 12 years ago

This is oddly much easier to understand and focus on.

jasonkostempski• 12 years ago

I came here to say that. Looks like the colors are all that's needed for the game to be playable.

mhewett• 12 years ago

That was a lot of fun. It would be nice to have a small explanation of the particle equations on the page for the non-physicists in the audience.

SifJar• 12 years ago

That wouldn't make much sense, seeing as these combinations aren't physically accurate. You don't make an electron neutrino by combining two electrons, for example.

gum_ina_package• 12 years ago

I thought the Hexagon 16384 game was pretty innovative, as well as some other 2048 forks, but this is just getting out of hand.

bfish510• 12 years ago

I actually think this is quite clever. It's not a tech improvement but its a domain shift that fits well. I took something from it, in a different way than other clones did.

frozenport• 12 years ago

His combinations make no sense. Just a random strings.

seppo0010• 12 years ago

https://i.cloudup.com/BdsYF1nusy-1200x1200.png

marcosdumay• 12 years ago

That's wrong. I already looked, and you still won and lost at the same time.

deletes• 12 years ago

Are the collisions at least plausible?

ars2• 12 years ago

Are the collisions at least plausible?

No. And I'm kinda disappointed about it.

wiredfool• 12 years ago

There should have been an earth shattering kaboom!

pvarangot• 12 years ago

Some of them, also some are pretty deadly...

k0mplex• 12 years ago

Apps are now memes

kang• 12 years ago

I am copying this.

MertsA• 12 years ago

Really tells you something about the cost of development over time. 10 years ago this would have sounded insane.

ars2• 12 years ago

Can you use a larger font? It's OK for the words to go to two lines.

midas0072• 12 years ago

Yeah, maybe just use the symbols and have that as "alt" / accessibly text.

volune• 12 years ago

This would been cooler if it actually followed physics in some way other than simply using physics terms. Combining 2 gluons makes a proton? This variant is just nonsensical.

EC1• 12 years ago

2048, the "has this ship already sailed or can I still get on" version.

midas0072• 12 years ago

Probably needs a bigger board / diff rules to do antiparticles and the like.

fdej• 12 years ago

Could someone please make a meta-2048 where each possible tile is one of the different versions of the 2048 game?

zxexz• 12 years ago

And each move you make in the meta-game releases the same move in to each of the tiles. "Game over" blocks could either end the game or be merged into something scarier.

jffry• 12 years ago

Here you go: http://jffry.github.io/2048-Meta/

(I admittedly did very little for this: https://github.com/jffry/2048-Meta/blob/master/js/html_actua...)

ihuman• 12 years ago

Dang, I got pretty close. I got to "Flappy 2048" before I lost.

TeMPOraL• 12 years ago

Haha, nice one :).

Now, could someone make recursive 2048, where the tiles are instances of 2048 game and the whole thing loops on itself, the top game being also the bottom one in one branch of a tree?

zamalek• 12 years ago

Looks like we have solved the origin of the universe. Everything is just one massive 2048 game.

doorhammer• 12 years ago

2048's all the way down

cmapes• 12 years ago

I realized that 2048 has quickly become the first code-meme of HN.

iLoch• 12 years ago

Huh, turns out I actually don't give a shit about the numbers and I just like mashing bright colours together.

symmetricsaurus• 12 years ago

As others have said this game has nothing to do with physics except for the names of the tiles.

If the progression followed particle masses it would make a tiny bit more sense but it doesn't. The neutrinos for example, are much lighter than their counterparts. I guess that masses would not make sense to use since the Higgs boson is not the heaviest known particle at 125 GeV, that distinction goes to the top quark at 173 GeV.

A more realistic game based 2048 and physics might be hard to make. Colliding particles does not work according to some recipe like: electron+positron makes a muon or something like that.

Instead there are a large number of possible recipes(Feynman diagrams) for every collision. In fact we have can have any reaction that is allowed as long as you conserve energy, momentum, angular momentum, electric charge and a few other exotic quantities. Each of these reactions can be assigned a probability and you cannot know beforehand what the outcome of a certain reaction will be. Adapting this into a 2048-style game is not obvious.

A game that would actually work is adding up neutrons and protons into atomic nuclei. Having a nucleus with 2048 nucleons is of course not very realistic but if you add in the decay of unstable isotopes only reaching Uranium-238 may be hard enough.

mschuster91• 12 years ago

Does anyone have a overview of all the 2048 offsprings created so far?

cfj• 12 years ago

Some can be found on http://2048.directory/

There's also a subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/2048

2048 for physicists

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