Contents

• 0. Preface
• 0.1. xxx
• 1. The Basic Idea
• 1.1. The Need for a Predictor
• 1.2. Crossing the Road
• 1.3. A Latest Sales Date
• 1.4. Scheduling
• 1.5. Back to How and Which
• 2. The Body Class
• 2.1. Code Listing
• 2.2. A Familiar Part
• 2.3. Predicting and Correcting
• 2.4. Shifting Perspective
• 3. The NBody Class
• 3.1. Code Listing
• 3.2. Starting Up
• 3.3. Finding the Next Particle
• 3.4. Output
• 3.5. Wordlines and Worldpoints
• 3.6. Verification
• 4. Spacetime
• 4.1. Mileage
• 4.2. Eras and Snapshots
• 4.3. Intermezzo
• 4.4. Almost Perfect Scaling
• 5. The World Class
• 5.1. Of Forests and Trees
• 5.2. Admittance
• 5.3. Output Choice
• 6. The WorldSnapshot Class
• 6.1. Three-Dimensional Slices
• 6.2. No Surprises
• 7. The WorldEra Class
• 7.1. The Next Level Down
• 7.2. Choosing a Particle
• 7.3. The Case of Shared Time Steps
• 7.4. Finishing the Loop
• 7.5. Some Concern
• 7.6. Back to the Beginning
• 7.7. Snapshots
• 8. The WorldLine Class
• 8.1. A Matter of Identity
• 8.2. Evolving on a Third Level
• 8.3. Two Types of Prediction
• 8.4. Extrapolation and Interpolation
• 8.5. Wrapping Up
• 9. The WorldPoint Class
• 9.1. Down at the Bottom
• 9.2. Setting Up and Starting Up
• 9.3. Predicting and Correcting.
• 9.4. Interpolation
• 9.5. Derivation
• 9.6. Glitches
• 10. World Input and Output
• 10.1. A Bad Thing
• 10.2. Modularity in Practice
• 10.3. A Test Suite
• 10.4. Using Snapshots Instead
• 11. Literature References