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No, that's not the point of simulation. You gain no understand from simulation because what you put into it is what you get out of it. Simulation can help you v
by ars 3y ago
No, that's not the point of simulation. You gain no understand from simulation because what you put into it is what you get out of it. Simulation can help you verify what you already know, and point to areas to examine, but you can't actually directly learn anything from it.
We trust our physical understanding by experimentation, not simulation.
You can use simulations in areas that are fully understood to run calculation on new arrangements of those those things, without having to make the physical object. But it only works when you already understand the thing, you can't gain that original understanding from the simulation.
- nomel 3y agoI think there’s an assumption that the “unit” of simulation is much smaller than the oxygen atom, allowing these “emergent” behaviors to arise.
- Retric 3y agoWe don’t actually know the laws of physics, we just have some decent approximations. So sure run a simulation at whatever level of granularity you want that doesn’t mean it’s correct.