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Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> writes:

>On 7/25/2016 10:12 AM, john wrote:

>> You simply Bible-thump, even the
>> brand new LIGO bible, which
>> they swear they only "injected"
>> the FIRST false signal.

>ALL major experiments, including the ones that found the Higgs, the ones 
>that found the top quark, ones that did other top notch work before 
>that, run SIMULATED DATA through their detector. Do you know WHY they do 
>that? I do.

>You are the one that is saying that if anyone would ever run simulated 
>data through their detector, then you could never be sure the real data 
>is real.

>Good grief, John, if you were truly a fan of physics, you would know WHY 
>this injection of simulated data is important to do.

Exactly, John.  I do software development. Part of my work is to test
normal, unusual and error conditions of all sorts to be sure the
system behaves as designed/expected, using simulated data and events.
We explicitly try to test "edge cases", often the more extreme ones.

Would you not trust the data on your PC because it happened to have software
I wrote and tested with fake test input?

I worked on fire department dispatch code.  We had several tests, including
what we jokingly called "burn the city down" tests.  Does that put the 
validity of an emergency fire department call in doubt because we ran a
make believe disaster scenario on the dispatch system?

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    Re: Gravity and light question edprochak@gmail.com - 2016-07-23 23:21 -0700
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          Re: Gravity and light question mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-24 14:09 -0700
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        Re: Gravity and light question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-24 15:22 -0500
          Re: Gravity and light question mapou001@gmail.com - 2016-07-24 14:12 -0700
            Re: Gravity and light question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 07:53 -0500
              Re: Gravity and light question john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 07:37 -0700
                Re: Gravity and light question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 09:39 -0500
                Re: Gravity and light question john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 08:12 -0700
                Re: Gravity and light question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 10:54 -0500
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                Re: Gravity and light question john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-25 17:12 -0700
                Re: Gravity and light question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 17:10 -0500
                Re: Gravity and light question john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 16:51 -0700
                Re: Gravity and light question Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-07-27 07:24 -0500
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      Re: Gravity and light question noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 11:52 -0700
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