The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Experimentation is an active science.
Observation is a passive science experimentation an active science.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature reflection and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
There would seem to be a limit even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure a mere experimentation.