Why would you wish for a solar system simulation, for example?
strange question. How do you think we calculate whether a planetary model is accurate or not?
Indeed, Neptune was discovered through verifying such a model in 1846.
RE: Truth v Reality: No Contest
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Truth v Reality: No Contest
The knowledge that our sun will cease to exist in some billion years, does that make a difference to you and your life of the present?
I am not asking rhetorically.
No, and we don't stop planting crops - setting extremes does nothing to diminish the validity of the approximate now.
What do you mean by that?
A theory has limits, beyond which it either doesn't work or is even meaningless - that doesn't mean it doesn't work within its domain. eg, ask the same question backwards: do we care when the solar system didn't exist at all?
I think, yes, that is obvious, that every theory has limits.
For me, the question backwards would be meaningless, since I assume that if our solar system had not existed, there would be no same present planet Earth on which such would have interested humans. How would you answer this question?