Re: Alternate/Unusual Primary Configurations

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 4/13/07 2:24:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

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Programs today can get
the coupling exact and better than you can measure. It's weird,
coupling for the longest time was one of those "must measure to be
even ballparked", but today, the programs are "actually" better than
the measurement (seriously).

Hi Bart,

    It seems to me that if the simulation is more accurate than 
measurement, then that accuracy cannot be verified. If accuracy (of a 
model) is defined in terms of how well it matches reality, and 
experiment is the final arbiter of reality, and the model is superior 
to experimental measurement, then we have ourselves an 
epistemological conundrum. It may, in fact, be more accurate, but we 
can never know that, except by "faith".
    Perhaps "accurate to the limits of measurement" would be a 
better way to put it.

Matt D.




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