{"id":24,"date":"2019-05-04T17:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/?p=24"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:02:32","slug":"fe26-a-2048-1028-threes-style-fusion-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/2019\/05\/04\/fe26-a-2048-1028-threes-style-fusion-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Fe[26] &#8211; A 2048\/1028\/Threes-style Fusion Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/Fe26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25\" width=\"310\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/Fe26.png 320w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/Fe26-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/files\/2019\/05\/Fe26-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><figcaption>Screenshot from Fe[26]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dimit.me\/Fe26\/\">Play a game<\/a> to learn about fusion in the late stages of high-mass stars, and nucleosynthesis in general!  (<a href=\"https:\/\/dimit.me\/Fe26\/\">https:\/\/dimit.me\/Fe26\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dimitar Dimitrov and Kevin O&#8217;Connor were students in an astronomy course I taught at RPI, and created this game as part of a project for this course.  I served as the &#8220;science advisor&#8221; for this project, and it turned out really well.  Several astronomers have told me they use this in upper-level astrophysics courses as a point of discussion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dimitar&#8217;s and Kevin&#8217;s creation went viral on the internet for a short time, and they were interviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/culture\/gaming\/a10402\/how-accurate-is-fe26-the-fusion-powered-take-on-2048-16729778\/\">Popular Mechanics<\/a> and received mention on <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/stellar-fusion-is-shockingly-addictive-1564152075\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nPlay a game to learn about fusion in the late stages of high-mass stars, and nucleosynthesis in general! (https:\/\/dimit.me\/Fe26\/) Dimitar&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/2019\/05\/04\/fe26-a-2048-1028-threes-style-fusion-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Fe &#8211; A 2048\/1028\/Threes-style Fusion Game&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":17712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/profnewby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}