Indeed! Deriving physics requires a number of different experiments specialized to the discovery of each component. I could see how a spectrograph plus an analysis of the bending of light could get you a guess that light is quantised via the ultraviolet catastrophe, although i’m doubtful this is the only way to get the equation describing the black body curve. I think you’d need more information like the energy transitions of atoms or maxwells equations to get all the way to quantum mechanics proper though. I don’t think this would get you to gravity either, as quantum physics and general relativity are famously incompatible on a fundamental level.
Indeed! Deriving physics requires a number of different experiments specialized to the discovery of each component. I could see how a spectrograph plus an analysis of the bending of light could get you a guess that light is quantised via the ultraviolet catastrophe, although i’m doubtful this is the only way to get the equation describing the black body curve. I think you’d need more information like the energy transitions of atoms or maxwells equations to get all the way to quantum mechanics proper though. I don’t think this would get you to gravity either, as quantum physics and general relativity are famously incompatible on a fundamental level.