Daisyworld, a computer simulation,'s a hypothetical world orbiting a sun whose radiant energy's slowly increasing. It's meant to mimic important elements of the Earth-Sun system, and was introduced by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson in a paper published in 1983 to illustrate the plausibility of the Gaia hypothesis. In the original 1983 version, Daisyworld's seeded with two varieties of daisy as its only life forms: black daisies and white daisies. White petaled daisies reflect light, while bla… (More on Daisyworld)