...so we should expect a period of wild speculation in physics with some fairly interesting experimentation to prove (or falsify) those theories. (I'm not a ph

...so we should expect a period of wild speculation in physics with some fairly interesting experimentation to prove (or falsify) those theories. (I'm not a physicist), but is it possible to almost automate some of the discovery process to attempt to turn up new leads? (or is the search-space too large for this to be reasonable?).