Yeah I've opined about this a couple times here. But yeah I don't like "experiments" either. I like data, I like observation; experiments are just a way to cont

Yeah I've opined about this a couple times here. But yeah I don't like "experiments" either. I like data, I like observation; experiments are just a way to control the rate we gather those observations, gather that data, instead of (and I did astronomy as an undergrad so I am particularly sympathetic to this field of examples) hoping a star explodes while you're looking at it. Gamma Ray Bursts are a great example of things we spent decades pretty much just hoping we'd be looking at when they happened. And there's weird one offs that we're basically just guessing on. But we build better instruments and make better observations and gather more data.