Why Philosophy of Physics?

Philosophy of Physics today is largely Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics PQM struggling to give meaning to a QM formed 100 years ago by physicists as modern physics without clear physical meaning. 

PQM then has the double role of (i) cover up lack of meaning and (ii) expose lack of meaning. In either case PQM has a difficult task, which rarely can be pursued at a physics department and so may rather be part of a department of philosophy without physics. Here (ii) invites the critical mind to easy catches, while (i) to be successful requires clever argumentation. 

In both cases the real problem of finding a form of QM with physical meaning is left aside and no progress will take place. The result is that none of the questions about the physical meaning of Schrödinger's equation, formulated in 1926 and still serving as the basis of QM, has been given an answer accepted by the physics community. 

Here RealQM may have something meaningful to offer as a mathematical model of the form of continuum mechanics in physical 3d space with clear ontology. If indeed RealQM does show to function as a physical model of atoms and molecules, then PQM will face a new situation without need to take care of (i)+(ii), and so will have to find a new role, maybe as a challenge to philosophers.