Not meaningfully. Physicists can roughly calculate how much energy will be liberated inside the reactor over its power, or a laser's efficiency, but not (for ex

Not meaningfully. Physicists can roughly calculate how much energy will be liberated inside the reactor over its power, or a laser's efficiency, but not (for example) whether their grant money will be available in 2 years, whether oil and gas reserves will open up, in general how much oil and gas are available on Earth, the atmospheric budgets, whether some (un)friendly political group will gain influence, etc. So sometimes innovations don't work because of things like economics, geoscience, politics, funding, and other times it's fair to say that it's the physics that doesn't play. It communicates more by using an accurate word, while "everything is physics" communicates nothing at all?