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by noobermin 3989 days ago
I'm a theoretic physicist who does computer simulations of laser plasma interactions. I'm just curious, how much of a scale difference (orders of magnitude) exist between your micro and macro worlds? We deal with femtosecond (1e-15 sec) and nanosecond (1e-9 sec) dynamics by using different simulations and feeding the short time sim results into the nanosecond ones. Is such a thing possible? I'd think doing something like that would be obvious, no?