On Sunday 01 February 2009, Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ wrote:
Simulation == all bets are off. It's never going
to tell you
anything meaningful.
If this was true, many people like me wouldn't have a job.
There's many scientific disciplines where simulation is much more
practical than physical experimentation, to help hypothesis.
The biggest example is funded by the DOE to do nuclear detonation
simulations.
Pat
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