The fallacy of experimental Physics

Experiments, albeit useful from a practical perspective, have never advanced theory. The Hubble constant is being pushed, pulled and tweaked by engineers and physicists as if that is going to lead somewhere. The "standard model," was dead on arrival. It is just that tenure seeking academics and measurement driven engineers, will not let it go. Now, the "cosmological crisis," (1) apparently is going to propel the theory to the next level.

It is unlikely. Theory emanates from imagination and not from "precise," measurements. Theory is about the unknown and not the incremental. Theory is about scope and not scale. Theory is about emergence and not process. Theory is about mindless excursions and not planned travel. Theory is about finding connections among the disconnected, Theory is about freedom and not programs. Theory is not about travelling to adjacent planets but conceptualizing what may be beyond. Theory is not exploration of the tangible but the unknown. Theory does not require heavy steel, just paper and pencil. 

Humanity waits for the arrival of the next genius. For over a century, experimentalists roamed the planet with nothing to show. It showcases why the existence of a singular mind at a space-time coordinate defines the trajectory for knowledge. 

We may be stuck. Our more and more "precise," measurements will asymptotically reach complete ignorance.

(1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/best-yet-measurements-deepen-cosmological-crisis/