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		JabavuAdams on March 18, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Negative Mass An amusing thought experiment, or th... No they couldn't. They could just simulate more bodies, but it wouldn't prove anything. You run a simulation with 1000 times as many bodies. Okay, it looks kind of filamenty. What have you learned?

jerf on March 19, 2010 [–]

That the results are robust in terms of your limited simulation. Whether or not it was clear, I was saying that the results of the simulation could be checked, not that therefore automatically he's right about his interpretation of the results.

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