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How often have I read a paper about a piece of computational physics which finishes with the words “...and we obtain good agreement with experiment”. If you know the answer from experiment, I want to cry, why are you wasting so much time calculating it???
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Heine, V. (1985). Computation of Electronic Structure: Its Role in the Development of Solid State Physics. In: Devreese, J.T., Van Camp, P. (eds) Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0899-8_1
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