The Simulation; See the (Toy Industry)

Abstract

Ali Darwisho and Nezih Wajeeh Heidar

In a grand ceremony in early September 1870, the giant British battleship HMS Captain entered the water for the first time.

While the Lords and Admirals of the Admiralty were still exchanging toasts and glasses of champagne to celebrate this unusual occasion, the ill-fated battleship capsized, drowning more than 500 of the finest sailors in the Royal Navy at the time.

This came as a surprise to everyone except for one person: the renowned English shipbuilder Edward James Reed, who was then the Comptroller of the Royal Navy and Chief Designer because he had conducted a preliminary study on a small model of the battleship and concluded that it would sink with the slightest movement of waves or currents at sea [1].

But the naval leaders paid no attention to this scientist's warnings, when they claimed were based on nothing more than unserious experiments conducted on a children's toy.

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