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COFFEE is the acronym for Conjecture Offered for Formal Empirical Evaluation. TEA is the acronym for Timed Experimental Accounting. In this context COFFEE is cheap but TEA is expensive and time consuming, the more time spent for experimentations the more expensive the TEA becomes.

An example of a physical theory offered for COFFEE or TEA is the theory of gravity. It came into existence in 1530 when a Polish mathematician-physician and priest wannabee by the name of Nicolaus Copernicus spill the beans on the heliocentric theory. A copy of his treatise On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres was presented to him on the same day he died. However, the heat of the sun continues to percolate the spilled beans. In December 27, 1571, the aroma permeated into the new born baby of a noble but poverty-stricken family. As foretold by the stars, the premature and sickly baby was Johannes Kepler. Upon school completion, he wanted to enter the ministry but was persuaded to accept the chair of astronomy at the Lutheran school of Graz. He believed a divine regulation for planetary motion according to 5 Platonic solids. His professional life befriended 2 most eminent astronomers: Tycho Brahe and Galileo. As a Protestant he was banished by influential Catholics and became Tycho’s assistant. When Tycho died he succeeded him as imperial mathematician of Prague observatory. Tycho’s precise TEA collections allowed Kepler to formulate his 3 laws of planetary motion while Galileo’s (include dropping different weights of beans atop the leaning tower of Pisa) allowed him to discover the constant acceleration of gravity. Then the sleeping Newton awaken by the impact of the bean apple on his head grounded it into differential calculus and formulated his universal law of gravitation, 3 laws of motion, and distinguished inertial from gravitational mass. In the 20th century, Einstein was perplexed by this mass distinction but lacking coffee or tea he fell into a deep slumber at his boring job in the Swiss patent office. He was awakening by vision of floating beans which to him became the happiest dream when he discovered the principle of equivalence for inertial and gravitational mass. He found that the TEA leaves in a cup of gravity potential is proportional to the curvature of the spacetime cup and always sink to the bottom of his gedanken experiment.