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Re:Quantum Game with Photons by stared on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @12:15PM (#15907312)
Author here. Really excited to see Quantum Game on HN! :)

Just in case, project repo is here: https://github.com/stared/quantum-game

For more on learning (and teaching) quantum mechanics, see: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sch...

And BTW: a question to you (as I guess there are many JavaScript whizz kids): how to make it more reactive?

Re:Quantum Game with Photons by JepZ on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:52PM (#15911029)
@stared Thanks for that wonderful game. I played through all levels some months ago and really liked it. When I saw that interactive quantum link [1] on the front page today, I was reminded of your game and thought some other might like it too.

Thanks again for building it, it was the first time I could actually bring my mind to embracing quantum mechanics :-)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15902190

Re:Quantum Game with Photons by zapoist on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @03:12PM (#15909028)
found a bug: if i click next after completing a level before the "you won" screen pops up and subsequently click next level on the "you won" screen i can skip two levels ahead
Re:Quantum Game with Photons by e1ghtSpace on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:00PM (#15909926)
I was just about to comment the same thing. :)
Re:Quantum Game with Photons by s-macke on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:34PM (#15908137)
Thanks for the game. I am playing through the levels and it is a lot of fun. But so far I have not found an effect that cannot be calculated with the classical Maxwell equations in matter.
Re:Quantum Game with Photons by stared on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:54PM (#15908877)
A single photon QM is basically classical wave mechanics.

My original intention was to do many-photon QM game (and wrote game engine for that). But in development I discovered that even wave mechanics offer quite a lot interesting, and counterintuitive, puzzles.

With one photon there the only thing that does not have a classical analogues is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_t..., which can be easily assembled from the blocks (well, the idea for using a light-sensitive bomb comes from there!).

Re:Quantum Game with Photons by krohling on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:25PM (#15908056)
omg, i <3 love this... esp cool that you included technical details like the amount of rotation caused by glass slabs.