Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time. The act of simulating something first requires that a model be developed; this model represents the key characteristics or behaviors of the selected physical or abstract system or process. The model represents the system itself, whereas the simulation represents the operation of the system over time.
Simulation is used in many contexts, such as simulation of technology for performance optimization, safety engineering, testing, training, education, and video games. Training simulators include flight simulators for training aircraft pilots to provide them with a lifelike experience. Simulation is also used with scientific modelling of natural systems or human systems to gain insight into their functioning. Simulation can be used to show the eventual real effects of alternative conditions and courses of action. Simulation is also used when the real system cannot be engaged, because it may not be accessible, or it may be dangerous or unacceptable to engage, or it is being designed but not yet built, or it may simply not exist.
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (born February 20, 1945) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner (Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?). He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer with John C. Mather that led to the measurement "of the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation."
This work helped further the Big Bang theory of the universe using the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE). According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." Smoot donated his share of the Nobel Prize money, less travel costs, to a charitable foundation.
Currently he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and since 2010, a professor of physics at the Paris Diderot University, France. In 2003, he was awarded the Einstein Medal.
Róisín Marie Murphy (Irish pronunciation: [roːˈʃʲiːnʲ], English: /roʊˈʃiːn/; born 5 July 1973) is an Irish singer-songwriter and record producer, known for her electronic style. Murphy has a contralto vocal range.
Murphy first came to note as one half of the electronic music duo Moloko with her then-boyfriend Mark Brydon. After the two ended their romantic relationship, Murphy released her debut solo album Ruby Blue, written and produced with Matthew Herbert, in 2005. Her second solo album Overpowered was released in 2007.
Murphy was brought up in Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland, in a Roman Catholic family. When she was twelve, her family moved to Manchester, England. Murphy embraced 1960s fashions from going with her mother, an antique dealer, to car boot sales and charity shops. She concealed her singing voice, not wanting other people to know she "sounded like Elaine Paige" when she herself enjoyed listening to the likes of Sonic Youth and Pixies instead.
After three years of living in Manchester, her parents divorced and moved back to Ireland. Murphy insisted on remaining alone in the UK because she did not think that her mother had the strength to continue taking care of her. Murphy lived with her best friend for a year, until she could receive Housing Benefit and live in a nearby flat. She was bullied at school and befriended a group of "weird boys who wore black" and who listened to the Jesus and Mary Chain. She enrolled in a sixth form college at seventeen and later considered going to art school. She moved to Sheffield where she began going to nightclubs and was inspired by the Vivienne Westwood designs she saw at Trash.
Prosthetic hearts they don't beat the same
Prosthetic veins they don't bleed the same
Prosthetic nerves they don't feel the same
Prosthetic eyes they don't see the same
Prosthetic screams they don't sound the same
Prosthetic tears they don't shed the same
Prosthetic minds they don't think the same
Prosthetic arms they don't bend the same
Another voice in our heads
Another piece of shit we're fed
Another unraveled thread
Whats real Whats real Whats real
Stimulation
Stimulation
Stimulation
Stimulation
Stimulation
Come on
Stimulation
Fire
Come on
Stimulation
I can sneak around the truth
We can say I look
We can say I’m round that
I can sneak around the truth
We can say I look
Girl go let some too
Stimulation
I can
Fire
Come on
I can
Fire
Come on
Stimulation
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
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I look back at you
I look back at you
Turn up
I look back at you
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I look back at you
Turn up
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
Turn up
Turn up
Stimulation
Fire
Turn up
Stimulation
I can sneak around the truth
We can say I look
We can say I’m round that
I can sneak around the truth
We can say I look
Girl go let some too
Stimulation
I can
Fire
Come on
I can
Fire
Come on
Stimulation
I look back at you (I can)
I look back at you (fire)
I look back at you (Come on)
I look back at you
I look back at you (I can)
I look back at you (fire)
I look back at you (Come on)
I look back at you (stimulation)
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I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
Turn up
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
I look back at you
Stimulation
Come on
Stimulation
Sim sim sim sim…
Turn up
Sim sim sim sim…
Stimulation
I can sneak around the truth
We can say I look
We can say I’m round that
I can sneak around the truth
We can say I look
Girl go let some too
Stimulation
I look back at you (I can)
I look back at you (fire)
I look back at you (Come on)
I look back at you
I look back at you (I can)
I look back at you (fire)
I look back at you (Come on)
The simulation
Swept the nation
In every household
Spared no one
It took our children
And made them orphans
But that was just a shadow of what was to come
And we thought maybe we might resist
But in reality the one keeping us down was me
Took me so long to finally believe
Got to let go
To believe
I heard a child speak
On a dead street
He called a name out I once recognized
Jump on the wagon
Your feet are draggin
Sign the papers this is your life