I mean, instrumentally, physics about making and testing models
It’s about that in the sense that that is the method, but it is not about that as a point. You don’t just build models, and put them in a filing cabinet, you build models and use them to make predictions, and also to make claims about the nature of reality.
It’s about that in the sense that that is the method, but it is not about that as a point. You don’t just build models, and put them in a filing cabinet, you build models and use them to make predictions, and also to make claims about the nature of reality.
Right, it is, but the second part is basically “philosophy”, though most physicists are naive realists and “make claims about the nature of reality”.