The Nature of Scientific Proof in the Age of Simulations

2014/04/23 by Kevin Heng, Heng, Kevin · 2 voices
Physics and Astronomy · #Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP) #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.IM

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1404.6248

Abstract

Is numerical mimicry a third way of establishing truth?

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• "With four parameters, I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk"--John Von Neumann http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.6248v1.pdf [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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