2048 for physicists(milrivel.github.io)
milrivel.github.io
2048 for physicists
http://milrivel.github.io/LHC/
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Huh, turns out I actually don't give a shit about the numbers and I just like mashing bright colours together.
Does anyone have a overview of all the 2048 offsprings created so far?
Some can be found on http://2048.directory/
There's also a subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/2048
There's also a subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/2048
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I realized that 2048 has quickly become the first code-meme of HN.
This is oddly much easier to understand and focus on.
I came here to say that. Looks like the colors are all that's needed for the game to be playable.
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.
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.
I thought the Hexagon 16384 game was pretty innovative, as well as some other 2048 forks, but this is just getting out of hand.
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.
His combinations make no sense. Just a random strings.
That's wrong. I already looked, and you still won and lost at the same time.
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.
Could someone please make a meta-2048 where each possible tile is one of the different versions of the 2048 game?
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...)
(I admittedly did very little for this: https://github.com/jffry/2048-Meta/blob/master/js/html_actua...)
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.
Looks like we have solved the origin of the universe. Everything is just one massive 2048 game.
2048's all the way down
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.