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by esafak 458 days ago
That's the ideal, but I think today's models are too crude for that. Relativity is built on differential geometry, which was new at the time. I think inventing or even building that is beyond today's models; there's an infinitely large space of mathematics that can be invented, and barely a gradient to guide the search. Humans don't coin mathematics by gradient descent. The most I've seen is fitting observations using existing mathematics; a technique known as symbolic regression. The E=mc^2 equation could be curve fitted like this, but it would afford no insight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_regression