A favorite science experiment with children is replicating a tornado.
Early attempts at replicating what was observed in nature had varying results.
But replicating a 1.5 million dollar watch is not the way to get it.
The resulting seedlings are then planted in a random, non-linear pattern inside fenced exclosures, replicating the natural distribution of the trees.
While artificial weathering is reproducible; the acute aggressive stresses mitigate against reliably replicating natural conditions.