&gt; at least if it involves...physical computers.<p>Yeah you &quot;explore stuff&quot; in any field. Science, art, math, every day life, when learning a craft (welding etc). Just because you explore doesn&#x27;t mean that is what the core of what computer science is.<p>&gt; Every time we implement some sort of abstraction, every time we vary a parameter, every time we optimize a program, we are running experiments.<p>Ok, what in life then isn&#x27;t science because well everything is running experiments? I am going to buy milk -- it&#x27;s an experiment to see what happens. Maybe I won&#x27;t find parking. I am drinking coffee in the morning, it&#x27;s an experiment to see if it will still keep me awake.<p>By that token we&#x27;ve diluted the word science to not really mean anything anymore.