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Game Developer behind TestTubeGames. Enjoy building, finding, and sharing cool science through games / toys / simulations. My games: https://testtubegames.com Other games I love: https://thescienceplayground.com/ he/him
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · Nov 13
You probably see me share a lot of science projects, but I also work on my own.

The current game: Agent Higgs 2!

It's a puzzle game where the pieces are the particles of the Standard Model.

Yes, *all* the particles. Yes, it was a questionable scope. Yes, it's still under development. (1/?)
Title screen of a cartoony style game. Title Agent Higgs 2, subtitle: Escape from the Standard Model. There are three buttons shaped like folders that say Play, Editor, and About. There is a red H with groucho Marx glasses in the middle of the screen, partially hiding behind a wooden crate. Around them are a variety of crates as well as particle tiles. There is a blue box with a p and a plus sign on it, representing a proton. Similarly there is an electron, muon, tau, and neutron block. Level in a grid based puzzle game. There are a variety of tiles, with Higgs trapped behind many wooden boxes in the corner. There are four electrons grouped together, and four positron tiles in a vertical line nearby. A small mysterious figure says "Don't think of it as particles dying. Think of it as particles changing. Changing into... being dead. You know what, let's move on." Tile based level of a game. Again, Higgs is in the lower corner, this time blocked by many black tiles representing holes in the level. There are four protons and four neutrons grouped in the upper left of the level. This time the mysterious figure says "A little danger is nothing you can't handle... right?"
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 4d
Video description: square full of green dots and blue dots spread out evenly but still randomly. They begin to slowly collapse into a web structure, then into something like galaxies. Green dark matter forms halos around the more compact blue gas clouds.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 4d
A box of gas (blue) + dark matter (green), now with a smoother distribution at the start.

(gravity + pressure + viscosity, 16k particles, periodic 2d)
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project.

This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
Some more 'gas' particles - this time two clumps in orbit. Pretty dangerous tides, if you ask me.

(16k particles, gravity + pressure + viscosity)
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*building a time machine to place my hand firmly on these photons and electric charges as I say "no" to prevent everything after from happening before it's too late*
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project.

This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
The clues were all there...
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
It's this light that forms the Cosmic Microwave Background that we see today.

This ancient light tells a pretty cool story about its journey. To learn a bit more, the first part of our project is available here: testtubegames.com/cmbjourney.h...
A CMB Photon's Journey
Explore the Cosmic Microwave Background with some interactive simulations. Find out what created this pattern of light and how we can even detect it.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
Video description: Dull grey hydrogen atoms move around the screen, photons move in straight lines, not interacting with them.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
And here we are at about 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

The universe has cooled enough that neutral atoms are common, and loose charges are rarer. Photons can finally travel in mostly straight lines.

Some of them traveled in mostly straight lines for billions and billions of years, in fact!
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
Video description: Again red positive charges and blue negative charges bounce around the screen, scattering the white wiggly photons that are moving through. There are some dull grey atoms now, though, too, which occasionally form from the charges.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
As the universe expands, it cools. Some neutral atoms (grey) are able to form briefly -- and these don't scatter the photons as much. Still the photons get bounced around.

(This is at about ~360,000 years after the Big Bang.)
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
Video description: A few dozen red positive charges and blue clouds of negative charge are bouncing around the screen. There are white wiggles representing photons moving around as well, some of which have paths traced behind them. The photons bounce frequently.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
I love this simulation of the early universe, part of our new CMB project.

This is early on - (~300,000 years after the Big Bang). The universe is so hot, plasma is everywhere. Photons can't travel far, bouncing off electric charges.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
Video description: two disks of blue particles nearby one another - they start uniform, then each collapse into spinning objects. The orbit around each other, though one is larger, and pulls a bit off the small one on the near-point of each orbit.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 8d
Some more 'gas' particles - this time two clumps in orbit. Pretty dangerous tides, if you ask me.

(16k particles, gravity + pressure + viscosity)
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Oops, the gas simulation made a Saturn, I guess?

(8k particles, all feeling gravity + pressure + viscosity)
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Video description: Large blue circular shape in the middle, surrounded by many dots swirling in a diffuse ring pattern. We zoom in and see the central 'planet' is made up of thousands of dots packed closely together.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Oops, the gas simulation made a Saturn, I guess?

(8k particles, all feeling gravity + pressure + viscosity)
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Related physics puzzle - can you figure out this SPOOKY force law?

Bonus point: If this force law were to dress up for Halloween, what costume would it wear?
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10d
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Video description: Particles arranged into a ghost, pumpkin, and hat as before - but now when the ghost and hat fall in towards the pumpkin, they emerge out the other side. Intact, yet flipped. They go back and forth like that.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Related physics puzzle - can you figure out this SPOOKY force law?

Bonus point: If this force law were to dress up for Halloween, what costume would it wear?
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Video description: Bunch of particles drawn into a row shapes - white ghost, orange jack-o-lantern, and a blue witch's hat. The ghost and hat start drifting into the center, before getting flung out past it again. This repeats, slowly stretching them into unrecognizable shapes.
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Candy Halloween @testtubegames.com · 10d
Tis a season.

Why does the ghost behave the way the ghost does? An eternal, and in this case, very specific, question.

(Single central pumpkin-y mass, gravity with a 1/r^2 force law.)
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PhET Interactive Simulations @phetsims.bsky.social · 15d
Explore the mysteries of quantum mechanics with our Quantum Measurement sim! Prepare & measure superposition states, dive into photon polarization, and experiment with Stern-Gerlach setups. phet.colorado.edu/en/simulatio... #physics #chatphysics #STEM
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