Sophistry is a bit strong of a term in my opinion. Physicists have received Nobels for inventing particles to balance equations. Why isn't that sophistry? Mayb

Sophistry is a bit strong of a term in my opinion. Physicists have received Nobels for inventing particles to balance equations. Why isn't that sophistry? Maybe we just need to spend a few more billion dollars on a brand new particle accelerator to figure that out.