Re: Empiry

["Miguel A. Santos" <msantos@etse.urv.es>]

> But, I don't believe computer simulations are a good way to teach
> physics, which I shall not defend just yet, but I have already admitted
> that I have not been a successful teacher; so, all *ad hominem* attacks
> can be considered to have been made *a priori*.   I don't believe
> computers represent reality well enough for teaching regardless of how
> well they succeed in industry and science.
>
> Best regards / The Dilettante
How could one get some  intuition on a system subjected to a 
difussion process with a reactive term a la Ginzburg-Landau plus
a cubic term? How coul one check what some non-rigorous arguments
tell us about it? Do there a dynamical selection appears as we
think from studying other similar systems?...

Well simulations can help us in checking if a given model
could be appropiate for a given real process.  

If we tell them this, would it prevent some of the misleading
ideas strudents get about simulation?

MA Santos