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Have you heard about the (relatively) recent results coming from experiments testing gravity waves? Hopefully they live up to your standard of science. Even i
by Cogito 10y ago
Have you heard about the (relatively) recent results coming from experiments testing gravity waves?
Hopefully they live up to your standard of science.
Even if they don't, I think labelling maths and models and simulations as 'non-science'is disengenuous.
First, theorycrafting is an important step in science, it is a formalised way of building hypotheses. If an individual or an entire discipline is devoted to theorising what may be, while others test those theories, they are doing science.
It is also science to test models with simulation. Proving a model does not prove the system being modelled, but we still need to know if, for example, the model is consistent. There are many situations where a model has no closed solution, and so the only way to test it is through simulation. Models are a key part of science; claiming that the testing of those models is somehow not science seems a pointless pedantry even if it were true.