This is the most compelling argument I’ve been able to think of too when I’ve tried before. Feynman has a nice analogue of it within physics in The Character of Physical Law:
… it would have been no use if Newton had simply said, ‘I now understand the planets’, and for later men to try to compare it with the earth’s pull on the moon, and for later men to say ‘Maybe what holds the galaxies together is gravitation’. We must try that. You could say ‘When you get to the size of the galaxies, since you know nothing about it, anything can happen’. I know, but there is no science in accepting this type of limitation.
I don’t think it goes through well in this case, for the reasons ricraz outlines in their reply. Group B already has plenty of energy to move forward, from taking our current qualitative understanding and trying to build more compelling explanatory models and find new experimental tests. It’s Group A that seems rather mired in equations that don’t easily connect.
This is the most compelling argument I’ve been able to think of too when I’ve tried before. Feynman has a nice analogue of it within physics in The Character of Physical Law:
I don’t think it goes through well in this case, for the reasons ricraz outlines in their reply. Group B already has plenty of energy to move forward, from taking our current qualitative understanding and trying to build more compelling explanatory models and find new experimental tests. It’s Group A that seems rather mired in equations that don’t easily connect.
Edit: I see I wrote about something similar before, in a rather rambling way.