Really good to know it is do-able. My hypothesis is that the big bang was polarised, imagine a non-exclusive singularity with 'north and south' poles becoming unstable and blasting apart (just like a supernova) with blobs of positive energy going in one fan shaped manifold direction and the other negative energy going in the other. The resultant recombining swirl will create dipoles which in turn will combine to give us complex structures such as quarks, protons, atoms, molecules and so on.

I want to model the recombining swirl. The greatest problem I have is that using existing modelling algorithms I am forced into the particle mindset. There is no such thing as a particle in the sense of the smallest solid bit. It is all energy which in itself has no spacial characteristic. It is the path the energy takes, carving out orbits as the positive and negative seek to recombine, that defines space, in that one dipole/multipole structure does not fit in the same space as another and sits alongside it, thus creating our concept of space. E.g. Take two marbles, they can't occupy the same space. Now look closely at a marble and no matter how small you try to break it down there is nothing 'solid' there. It is only orbiting energy. If all the positive and negative energy in the universe were recombined into a stable form there would be no space, i.e. it would return to a singularity.

Thank you very much for your leads.

Thanks for the advice, I thought that applets might be the issue. I'm running Linux (Ubuntu 11.10) 64bit, using Firefox with IcedTea 1.1.3 plugin for Java applets. Also running through a wireless repeater bridge so that doesn't help either (although Flash streams are fine).