If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch

LOL

Hehehehe

You got to admire hope.

Having said that - reading AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE by Stuart Kaufman and MICROCOSMOS by Lynn Margulis would probably be a good 2-book starter set to help this dude see understand how and why we are still SO FAR from being able to program emergent properties into a physics / chemistry / evolutionary biology simulation...

Any good programmer is going to be lazy. They should just bootstrap with git clone physics_lite and work from there.

maybe start from the big bang, there's gotta be some academic code published on those kinds of simulations, then just like ...... let it run

Ah, the reckless ambition of youth, the jaded fatalism of age, once again they meet.

What if God was one of us, just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home?

Just learn Feynman diagrams, from there it's a piece of cake

I heard a guy pulled this off using TRS-80 Assembly Language back in the day, but the cassette drive failed when he was saving the 25th tape, and he just didn't have the heart to start over.

Let me know if your simulation recreates that too.