Results of experiments do matter. That’s exactly why I’m pointing to Bitcoin.
You say you trust experiments conducted by reputable teams. I don’t need to trust Bitcoin’s results, I can verify them. Bitcoin is not a claim or a model; it is a running experiment with 928,302 discrete blocks of irreversible state change (time), all independently reproducible by anyone, anywhere, at any time.
Each block is time constructed through a physical process: energy is expended via proof-of-work to resolve a quantized entropy search space into a single admissible state. That is measurable, repeatable, and falsifiable. There are no hidden variables, no interpretive layers, no appeals to authority, just work, entropy, and irreversible time.
The burden isn’t on me to explain why Bitcoin counts as physics. The question is yours to answer: why isn’t this a sufficient experiment? If an open, global system that produces discrete, verifiable time through energy expenditure doesn’t qualify as physics, then what exactly does?
