From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 00:35:52 MST
Terry: You garbled too many quotes. Please keep the appropriate
headers- the parts where I spoke and the parts where the
other scientists (cosmologists, physicists, astronomers, etc.)
spoke, and then there is a person whose name is at the end
named Robert Ebert that I guess was disagreeing with every
statement by all persons. Too confusing to me to sort it
out.
Amara
BTW: news to me that a model is not a theory...
I wonder what I've been doing the last n years!
("models are merely visualizations" ... what???).
To my understanding and last 20 years experience, models are the
*applications* of the theory, that is what it meant when you see the
term 'model' used in scientific journal articles as well as when you
hear scientists talk. Models are usually described with math,
sometimes with computer code and so on. Maybe Robert Ebert has
different experience with this term, mine comes from astrophysics,
atmospheric physics, planetary science, geophysics.
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