The thought of "experiments that support the metaphor" is altogether too abstract and [to my perception] muddled a concept to make any sort of communication to me whatever. I daresay Mr Sprocket thinks he knows what he means by it. Does anyone else have any idea what he is groping for here? How can an experiment support a metaphor? If it be granted it can, what, precisely, is the nature of this support? of this experiment? of this metaphor? It sounds to me like an assertion with no identifiable referent.

~M~