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I've always wondered why the physics community was split the way it is. Why do we have people who are theorists and others who are experimentalists. It seems to me that every scientist should ideally be a mix of both. I've noticed that other science fields don't really have this split(at least not to the same extent). Is there a historical reason for it, or is it just by chance that physics ended up this way?