I would say that any prediction that can be derived from a model and
confirmed is a validation of the model and the model remains valid until
replaced by a better one. The sun was orbiting the earth until evidence
became too contradictorily for this model. Until then it was a good model
- better than no model at all, be it wrong or not.
--
Tim Gruene
Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
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On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote:
On 17/11/2009, at 08.10, mesters wrote:
Yes, but models that can be validated against experimental data. The
defining characteristics of computational models is that they (A) are 100%
dependent on the algortihm, (B) can't be validated at all.
Cheers,
Morten
Sorry, they can be validated to some extend using biochemical data!
You are joking, right?
-- Morten
