Reading things like this article and replies, it seems apparent that physics research, or at least teaching, often blurs the distinction between experiments in

Reading things like this article and replies, it seems apparent that physics research, or at least teaching, often blurs the distinction between experiments in thought or otherwise explaining a theory, and those that motivated theory by empirically disproving previously-held beliefs. Also I’ve noticed a strange form of entropy in physics that tends to show more evidence for models that have the largest number of equivalent formulations based on different assumptions. You could say that this is a result of how physicists work to prove their own theories, but perhaps the gods work the same way. Waves of probability amplitudes with quantized action is a nice abstraction that works so far, but so was continuum mechanics. Wave-like observations could easily be a simple consequence of the central limit theorem in the same way.