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I agree. And it'll do some very inaccurate and unrealistic things, especially with bodies of similar size. It's full of amazing explosions, but it's not really that realistic.
A fun toy rather than an accurate simulation of the universe.
That's the whole problem. It's *based* on real physics. But our knowledge of physics is changing all the time. And there's a limit on what you can simulate using a normal desktop computer.
And which means by extention it's not realistic at all. Thanks for the post; I didn't realize it was based on such an obsolete model.
Newtonian Physics are easy to impliment solely because they're so unrealistic. They completely ignore very important factors, such as the butterfly effect. It makes it possible to simulate things like gravity in a video game without a lot of processing power, but it won't ever be an accurate simulation.
Newtonian models were mostly abandoned in the 1950s and 60s after Chaos Theory torpedoed the concept. Chaos Theory and the Butterfly Effect make Newtonian Physics impossible in any real-world scenario.