History
Before it became possible to simulate molecular dynamics with computers, some undertook the hard work of trying it with physical models such as macroscopic spheres. The idea was to arrange them to replicate the properties of a liquid. J.D. Bernal said, in 1962: "... I took a number of rubber balls and stuck them together with rods of a selection of different lengths ranging from 2.75 to 4 inches. I tried to do this in the first place as casually as possible, working in my own office, being interrupted every five minutes or so and not remembering what I had done before the interruption." Fortunately, now computers keep track of bonds during a simulation.
Following the earlier successes of Monte Carlo simulation with materials, the method was developed by Alder and Wainwright in the 50s and Rahman (independently) in the 60s .
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