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Aren't you modeling a subset of the universe at that level? Isn't a model supposed to provide a higher level understanding/abstraction?
by jevinskie 13y ago
Aren't you modeling a subset of the universe at that level? Isn't a model supposed to provide a higher level understanding/abstraction?
- deletes 13y agoAtom is still an abstraction of sub particles ( that may be made of even lower ones, we don't know ) and their physical interactions so i think it is a model. And a reasonably good one.
- frozenport 13y agoIn cases where qualitative meaning is nontrivial, you don't know 100% what is going on, it is nevertheless possible to implement parametric studies for some target parameter.