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> Even at the end of the prediction, you still have to prove your result by getting an actual crystal which is not always easy. From my experience, this might
by sndean 9y ago
> Even at the end of the prediction, you still have to prove your result by getting an actual crystal which is not always easy.
From my experience, this might be the largest hurdle. At least in biology, beyond proving your result, a lot of the experimentalists that you're talking to likely think that "all of this simulation stuff is complete bullshit." That might be a generational thing, though.
- entee 9y agoI think it's a pretty giant hurdle, and I don't think it's a strictly generational thing. Having been on both sides of the computational/experimental divide, I still fundamentally can't trust a result that has no experimental validation. At some point, even if you believe the computation's result, it has to be proved out in the physical world to be useful.