[Iv]

I work in tech and any company with a website calls itself a tech company.

Saying you are a physics company as soon as you use advanced materials does not seem that far-fetched from where I stand.

And the criterion of "these companies competitive advantage depend partly on recent physics research" is a pretty good one that may indeed include drilling companies and geological exploration.

[airstrike]

Any company with a website calls themselves tech because there is a value in doing so, not because they objectively believe that to be true.

There's no value in calling a company a "physics company" because that means nothing outside of this very specific conversation we're having