On: Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters

[Dylan16807]

I don't see how those resources are fungible with each other.

[jampekka → Dylan16807]

Research funding is very competitive and scarce.

[Dylan16807 → jampekka]

Building a physics machine, and thinking about how the equations might work, are so very different.

Does the latter even get funding?

[jampekka → Dylan16807]

Of course. It's called theoretical physics.