It’s math. They didn’t “discover” anything. I propose that mathematical prognosticators accompany all their “discoveries” with a physical proof of the real existence of their mathematical models. If they can’t design a physical proof, file their discoveries in the “this could be” confabulation file, until someone could prove that the phenomena actually exists and behaves as the model suggests.
IMHO
Good idea, except all models and theories about reality are simplifications, and are therefore certain to be wrong at some level. No complete proof is ever possible, just evidence that a model sometimes works to a useful level. It's amazing how often physicists get crazy lost in mathematics, an eternal playground of God, and think math can do anything more than model reality. The fact that physics formulas run perfectly in reverse is the first clue they are missing something big about how the universe really works. And math is full of infinities, like the model of black holes, and all the numbers between 1 and 2, however no infinities have ever been found in the real world, anywhere. That is big clue number two.
Good post.
The issue is reification.
A lot of folks here are guilty of it.