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Re:What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? by evandijk70 on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:12PM (#16164212)
It is not necessarily the goal to model more atoms than we have atoms to model with. The goal can be, for example, to model a folding protein, which has fewer atoms than a CPU.
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Re:What Makes the Hardest Equations in Physics So Difficult? by njarboe on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @12:34AM (#16165714)
And one might be happy to spend a month computing the folding while in the cell it takes a few seconds.
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