My point is that physicists are not good at their job because they don't look at the mechanics of it all, Benjamin.
They look at the results and try to understand the beginning. That is faulty logic. That is trying to figure out where babies come from by examining babies. The answer is not found with the results.
As such, physics is actually more like economics than you may be willing to admit.
To keep this reply shorter:
Mechanically: an eight-year old already knows that with seeing a broken toy that the toy had an ability in the past that is now gone. If the toy has wheels, for instance, then the eight-year old will know that the toy could race across the living room floor before it broke. If the broken toy has three legs and a hole, then the toy had four legs once and could probably run with them. A girl or boy of eight years old can see that already.
Physicists are not that bright. They look at the results and do not take the time to contemplate what the prior state of the universe was that broke. So, they don't understand the whole picture while they have all information already. They don't understand why matter came about and therefore they don't understand how matter came about.
Economists already agree that money is a 'modern' invention (the Greeks coined the coin). So, economics is like the weather, it can be understood, and sometimes economists have to do some hindsight considerations because they did not include everything correctly, made mistakes. It's like the weather, because the economists are not in control of all money flows, all production, all competition, all regulations. We are not in control of the weather (except that we can make it worse, global climate change), but we understand that we ourselves were the beginning of (finance-based) economics.
Physicists are more medieval; they have not figured out the big picture, don't recognize how matter came to be, whereas economists have a full view on the beginning of economics.
When I figured out the big picture in 1981, there wasn't too much to it. It was actually a bit of a disappointment. I had hoped to see more of the mystery, but all I did was take away some of the mystery; it became less of a mystery. The weather is just the weather, economics is just economics, physics is just physics.
