[danielmarkbruce]

I mean...it's surprising this is a paper isn't it? Atoms, mass, charges, energy, forces etc are largely understood. The problem with weather, protein folding, oil exploration (and many other things simulations are run to predict) has always been that you can't do enough calculations in any reasonable amount of time (/money) so you have to figure short cuts which are approximately right. It's the same as graphics.

It's self evident that the answer to a lot of these things is just "more compute" and "better shortcuts". Like, GPUs and deep neural nets.