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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (2781)	10/27/2000 1:54:27 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

Richard Feynman warned against trusting computational physics too much, saying in gist, that the results need to be carefully checked against experiment. I was at NIF last weekend and I saw this chart from work done on NOVA. There was a very disturbing deviation by 30% on the log scaled "Modeled Properties of Hydrogen" from the computational model. I'm really glad they are working on a model that produces good answers, but I find all too often that science moves ahead without data. The problem here is it is hard to complete the model without experiment. Do you guys and gals remember the movie "Our Friend the Atom"? A great propaganda piece, IMO, showing a complete disregard for the dangers of a technology. Atomic powered cars in that movie. Here's an ethical hypothetical I thought of while moo'ing at the cows on my last bike ride. What if world hunger could be ended by a strain of E. Coli that could de-polymerize saccharide chains in grasses. A. Should we rush to end world hunger (possibly with unknown consequences) B. Should we wait and evaluate it for long term side effects and environmental risk.