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Well, what I mean is that (to give you perhaps an extreme example) classical mechanics, while not "lacking experimental data," has for the last 200 years been e
by Koshkin 3y ago
Well, what I mean is that (to give you perhaps an extreme example) classical mechanics, while not "lacking experimental data," has for the last 200 years been effectively considered part of (applied) mathematics (known as "analytical mechanics"). Thermodynamics, electromagnetism, quantum field theory, general relativity - they all seem to be purely mathematical now.
- danbruc 3y agoThen I probably misunderstood you, I thought you were talking about how closely the math is tied to the actual world, say all the reformulations of classical mechanics as opposed to some supersymmetric theory. In the end physics is applied mathematics, once you have a theory that describes your observations, you can just study the mathematical structure and look for interesting things, only occasionally going back to the lab to verify your predictions, improving confidence that you picked the correct model.