On AD 2007 February 16 Friday 04:04:40 PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote: > Just where is the obvious separation between theory and practice in > physics? I'm not understanding your argument that computer science is > different. I mean, the only reason particle accelerators exist is to > do physics, but that doesn't make physics theory any more or less > practical. Computers can be used as tools in computer science, but > they are just about exactly as important to computer science as > particle accelerators are to particle physicists or telescopes are to > astronomers.
To further the confusion here hard science (physics, chemistry, biology) use very sophisticated modeling software to help prototype new models in increasingly complex sciences. After all science is just a bunch of models. If you have a language to express those models in you can write down all the knowledge of that science. That is one of the reasons why the computer is so important to the practice of science. Justin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
