Wave science has been tightly tied to lab models and computer models of lab conditions for as long as I can remember. It seems like an inherently calculatable e

Wave science has been tightly tied to lab models and computer models of lab conditions for as long as I can remember. It seems like an inherently calculatable environment, and the messiness of nature a distraction. This bias, I think, is what has caused it to lag behind the empirical reality of wave engineering. Observation is hard and often unfruitful. Simulation often fails to imagine the complex interactions that create extreme observations. It’s just a hard slog any way you look at it.