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All things considered, "someone" could probably toss together a simulation to check the results in well under a week with modern tools, and run it on a modern processor. A modern processor could do much more finely-grained deltas.



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?


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.


Not to mention a lot bigger problem set. 256 points is laughably few nowadays.




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