On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 1:03:58 PM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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> On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 8:35:34 AM UTC-5, Philip Thrift wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 5:26:08 AM UTC-5, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
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>>> For the most part computers are meant to run various algorithms that
>>> solve some restricted set of problems, say business applications. We use
>>> them largely as tools.
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>>> LC
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>> All of the (usable) theories of physics invented to date can be (and are)
>> implemented on supercomputers (like those in the Dept. Of Energy national
>> labs).
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>> Some physicists though talk as if there is a Church they must go to --
>> where their minds are elevated into a Platonic realm where Physics is
>> revealed to them.
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>> @philipthrift
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> I guess one might say that is what experiments do.
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> LC
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As I say,
Physics = Math + Witchcraft.
(Computational Physics though is a programming domain.)
@philipthrift
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