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The whole purpose of physics is to describe the real world, the actual world we live in. Now, you can imagine all sorts of interesting worlds, with different physical laws; but ultimately, you can only know which of these most closely matches the real world, by doing actual experiments.

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It is a misnomer created by some intellectually challenged person who had never heard of theoretical physics.

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