Universe Sandbox 2: Public Alpha Released!

[LaydeeDem]

This was always a feature, you can have bouncy or impact collisions.

No, it's just that they were so small and had so little relative velocity that they didn't merge. This doesn't happen in later builds AFAIK.

Am I missing something? I didn't think anyone knew what dark matter was. I thought it was just a theory to try and explain away unexplained astronomical observations.

We don't know what dark matter is, we just know it needs to exist or really bad things will happen.

Hence "dark" matter.

[TheDarkStar]

We call it "dark" matter because it barely interacts with light/the electromagnetic force; however, it still interacts with gravity, and that is how we can do things like map where it is.

[Camacha]

No, it's just that they were so small and had so little relative velocity that they didn't merge. This doesn't happen in later builds AFAIK.

I was thinking of a toggle switch in US1 that allows you to switch between impact and bounce mode

We don't know what dark matter is, we just know it needs to exist or really bad things will happen.

Hence "dark" matter.

Well, there is always the option of a complete misunderstanding of what we do see and that dark matter is indeed just a mathematical trick to patch things up. Time (and a whole lot of hard work) will tell.