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Originally Posted by Van Rijn
Well, that would be consistent with the equivalence principle. But, anyway, I don't see a useful distinction in this case between "simulated" and "artificial" - which is why I suspected a joke before I googled the synonyms.
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Simulated means fake-- and that's all it means. Artificial just has to do with whether something's natural, not whether it's real. For example, an "artificial diamond" has the same carbon structure as a natural diamond. It really is a diamond. A "simulated diamond" isn't a diamond at all.
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