Wow.  Just wow. Please don&#x27;t project your insecurities on others.<p>Look, I tend to say that &quot;Computer Science&quot; is a bit pretentious, &quot;playing with computers&quot; 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:  &quot;Ach, that isn&#x27;t even wrong&quot;.<p>Bringing Einstein, who was a theorist, into a discussion about <i>experiments</i> is downright silly, and makes me question whether you have any idea as to what you&#x27;re talking about.<p>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&#x27;t exist and there are no scientists, to several significant figures.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;t know what you&#x27;re talking about, neither in theory nor in practice.<p>And yes:  there is a lot of science being done that isn&#x27;t at the level of Einstein or the people at CERN or Fermilab.