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by brnt
951 days ago
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The model in question is physics laws and values for parameters therein, including evolving parameters. The purpose of running the simulation is to produce a state that matches cosmological observations: e.g. are stars indeed forming galaxies, are those galaxies distributed as we see (like the films in a foam)? The simulation thus (in)validates basic assumptions of the model. The model in turn can generate features that can be clues to what to look for in cosmological observations: are planets for more proliferated than we've seen so far and should we really spend money on the MostBiggestTelescope to observe them? Even better: can we derive the parameters for the telescope that can definitively confirm or rule out their existence? If we found good agreement on parameters, what does the early universe look like in the model? The future universe? Tons of basic science, in short. |
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