simulation based sciencing
the curious thing about simulation work is that you create new knowledge in a sandbox that is only an approximation of truth. And somehow, you can find new knowledge in that sandbox that has bearing on reality. Most of the time you didnt make the sandbox in the first place, and will likely never know who made it or how.
Yet somehow a scientist comes into the box, plays around with it, and TADA, they find something new in the box. Did the scientist really discover something? Or was it inevitable from the sandbox's creation for the new thing to be found later? i dont think so.
The scientist pushes buttons on a keyboard to use software they didnt write, and creates knowledge, creates information, creates insight, where none was before. The software is just a tool, a hammer, a pickaxe, a wrench. A house is complete having found a hammer. nor the gold mined. nor the engine built. The tool is wielded and the craftsman creates value. The tool is only leverage, a catalyst for creation.