The Scale at the Bottom of a Pool
“An Olympic-sized swimming pool is filled with 660,000 US gallons of water. An imaginary scale under the pool reads 5,511,556 pounds — the weight of the water. Now a 12,000 pound, 5 foot wide spherical wrecking ball is lowered halfway into the water by a crane. What does the scale read?”
Why would observation limit theory modeling it? Observation does not impact string theory or SUSY; and the Higgs is “elsewhere” while protons really do decay. Economics and psychology only predict the future in retrospect.
We know astrology works! Princess Diana’s extensive expensive stable of soothsayers specifically did not release notice of her impending death lest their full true powers be revealed.