Text 22919, 37 rader
Skriven 2008-10-30 15:05:17 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
  Kommentar till text 22905 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Loyalties
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 RB>>> and that's why all the real nuclear powers have definitely tested
 RB>>> their devices.

 BF>> All of them?

 RB> If not, they can only guess that the devices work.

   That's where you are totally wrong. They do not have to guess, they
can predict with a more or less high degree of certainty. The certainty
can then be measured against the cost for blowing up a certain device,
and the risk for a malfunction is the base for deciding to destroy a
device or not.

 RB> Remember, I'm a scientist and know what a laboratory is for.

   No you are not and you don't! You are a translator with half a
century old scientific education. Half a century is an eternity in the
science world. Your experiences are as outdated as slide-rules, paper
and pen became when modern computers entered the scene.

   Deterministic science is now the norm, empiric science has been
forced to step down. Mainly because the latter costs far more than it's
worth -- ROI is simply far, far to low.

   Just as when car factories no longer crash test their vehicles
(except when politicians, as outdated as you, demands it), since their
computer simulations are far more accurate. Determinism outranks
empirism by magnitudes.

 RB> If no tests were necessary,
 RB> we could close all the laboratories in the world and just work on
 RB> computer screens.

   You obviously haven't seen the inside of a laboratory for decades...

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