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But there are plenty of empirical studies in computer science that are certainly science.
Yes. Theoretical physics is theoretical. But physics is not. Computer science is purely theoretical. It's math. Adding a theoretical designation to computer science is being redundant.
> But there are plenty of empirical studies in computer science that are certainly science.
Plenty of "empirical studies" that you failed to name one? There are engineering tests for computers and algorithms. But there isn't a "science". What natural law is postulated within computer science?
You can use computer "science" like any other math to do science, but it isn't itself a science. It's a mathematical tool.