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I looked for Muon g 2 experiment results on arXiv but couldn't find it but Wikipedia says results published April 2021. Do you know where physicists keep their experiment data... Is it available to general public like me. Are there theoretical physicists who look at the muon g 2 experimental...

Ok so I found this question on quora and one of the answers said (in relation to what I am asking) that "There are experimental results without a theoretical model. They can work on that or they could work on previously existing models to apply necessary corrections thereby making them better...

What are they employed to do most of the time? I read that Albert Einstein was working at a patent office when he came up with his theories. So do theoretical physicists work on stuff they are interested in their free time as opposed to when they are at work?

Thanks to BBC for making it readable for a layman link to the article: https://www.bbc.com/news/56643677

Then what proof is there that light is certain speed in certain time if you don't measure. Can I define the speed of a car driving by and say that is certain speed it's going at. Science requires experiment to verify theory even though experiment always had uncertainty or percentage error...

But experiment with clock is not perfect so result of speed of light from experiment not perfect. But we just accept it as theory says?

But how can you know that without some sort of measurement. How can you know that the photon moved that much of a distance at specific time without measuring something.

Can't wrap my head around the fact that the speed of light is just defined but not measured. So you are saying a thing called photon or light that exists in reality like an object with mass moves from one point in space to another point and it is simply defined without some form of measurement...

Please explain why it isn't measured and is instead 'defined'. How is it defined and how can you just define it without experimental results? Sorry if stupid question, I have little physics background.

Does that apply for the speed of light as well. We are all told that the speed of light is exactly 299 792 458 m/s but does that come with a percentage error/uncertainty (not sure what to call it woops) in the experiments.

To want to know the exact quantity of an object whether it be it's length, width, weight etc... Doesn't an absolute measurement only exist in the math/our human Minds. Then go down to quantum scales and that gets even harder because from what point do we even measure from if there is no exact...

I appreciate the answers and I get what most are trying to say which is it is possible but it's highly unlikely but past people have done SORT of similar stuff. I was just making a joke because I found the previous answer funny lol

^Hahaha Edit: Guys I want to be an astronaut for NASA instead with no college degree. I want to fly around looking for aliens hehe

Has there ever been a lone scientist (maybe even self taught) who made a break through theory or scientific discovery? I am going to say something kind of weird but I have romantic thoughts in my head of teaching myself advanced physics through the internet and somehow doing something 'great' in...

Who are the people that work on the ground breaking theories and the major discoveries, the big stuff! Why aren't most physicists the next Einstein or "Insert famous scientist here" and what do they work on for their day to day work? I wonder this because a lot of people who don't know much...