Wow. Just wow. Please don't project your insecurities on others.
Look, I tend to say that "Computer Science" is a bit pretentious, "playing with computers" is overall more appropriate for the level our field is at. Not sure where you got Einstein from. And, in the words of Wolfgang Pauli: "Ach, that isn't even wrong".
Bringing Einstein, who was a theorist, into a discussion about experiments is downright silly, and makes me question whether you have any idea as to what you're talking about.
Second, assuming for the sake of argument that Einstein was an experimenter, it would be just about the biggest straw-man imaginable. If experiments are only experiments if performed by one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, then science effectively doesn't exist and there are no scientists, to several significant figures.
However, the question was not who is an awesome scientist, but whether there are experiments in CS, whether empiricism is relevant especially vs. the entire field being a trivial application of mathematical theory.
And that is, for me, easy to answer: it is a highly empirical field. If you think it is a trivial application of mathematical theory, you don't know what you're talking about, neither in theory nor in practice.
And yes: there is a lot of science being done that isn't at the level of Einstein or the people at CERN or Fermilab.
Look, I tend to say that "Computer Science" is a bit pretentious, "playing with computers" is overall more appropriate for the level our field is at. Not sure where you got Einstein from. And, in the words of Wolfgang Pauli: "Ach, that isn't even wrong".
Bringing Einstein, who was a theorist, into a discussion about experiments is downright silly, and makes me question whether you have any idea as to what you're talking about.
Second, assuming for the sake of argument that Einstein was an experimenter, it would be just about the biggest straw-man imaginable. If experiments are only experiments if performed by one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, then science effectively doesn't exist and there are no scientists, to several significant figures.
However, the question was not who is an awesome scientist, but whether there are experiments in CS, whether empiricism is relevant especially vs. the entire field being a trivial application of mathematical theory.
And that is, for me, easy to answer: it is a highly empirical field. If you think it is a trivial application of mathematical theory, you don't know what you're talking about, neither in theory nor in practice.
And yes: there is a lot of science being done that isn't at the level of Einstein or the people at CERN or Fermilab.