Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Nasrudith 2345 days ago
Well it is still useful but not to you directly. The distinction being that the right intermediary could make use of it.

If you had a physics model it could describe it perfectly but it would likely involve a very large group of matricies and linear algebra constraints. You technically could work through every equation given a large set but examining the watch yourself would likely be quicker, if not learning to be a sufficiently good watchmaker.

However if you assemble a computer model to handle every component's interaction individuallt and a physics engine to do number crunching you could get a working mathematical model of the clock.