Baryonic Musings

Finally got back to my exoplanet generator project this past week after a ~six month hiatus. I'm still on the galaxy generation portion, and am ready to abuse some tables and figures from the literature. But in a responsible way. Quick digression: There are broadly two ways to approach generation and simulation of physical systems such as galaxies, stars, and planets. The first, more rigorous and scientific approach, is to define the starting parameters, equations of state, and environmental influences and run a time-evolving simulation of the system itself. This is what real scientists do and get published in real journals. This is the domain of dark matter and galactic hierarchical merging simulations, of detailed simulations of planetary interiors, and of climate models. A mostly bottom-up approach that allows the simulation to take on a life of it's own, with some tweaking of parameter and modeling choices. The second way varies from "rigorous enough" to all out h