Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 63: May-Jun 1989 Issue Contents

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Some Editorial Pedantry

If you glance back quickly at the last three items on "astronomy," you will see that all three discoveries were made with computers using numerical simulation - not through direct observation. Since such simulations are built upon a foundation of accepted physical laws, to say nothing of various mathematical approximations and computer software, the discoveries made are only as good as the laws and methodology. As. A. Korzybski used to say: "The map is not the territory." Forgetting this has led experts to predict that heavier-than-air craft could never fly and that the earth could not be more than a few million years old.

From Science Frontiers #63, MAY-JUN 1989. © 1989-2000 William R. Corliss

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