Are supercomputers just better liars?
Supercomputers might be better at providing the right answers or they could just be providing the wrong answers in far greater detail. Supercomputers enable simulations to use much higher resolutions, more detailed physics, and a greater amount of input data. Yet does all that extra simulation power ensure their predictions are more accurate or more likely to be right than a simpler model? In other words, how do you know your supercomputer is telling the truth? It is a fact of modern life that many things we deal with daily are influenced in some way by computer modelling. Phones, soft-drink cans, vehicles, computers, food containers, healthcare products all are designed with input from computer modelling. Those products are shipped to us with logistics supported by computer modelling. Everyday life is powered by energy found or generated by computer modelling. Increasingly, computer simulations are replacing physical testing for most design work jet-engine failures are now tested in c
