Researchers sometimes attribute insights to statistical mechanics or physics equations, but these explanations may be ad hoc accounts used to make submissions more compelling to reviewers.

“They will say the insight was derived from some kind of nice idea about statistical mechanics or some nice equation in physics that says that we should do it this way. But often that's kind of an ad hoc story that they tell to make it a bit more compelling to the”

“kind of reviewers that”

“they submit.”