Is it? My experience is that most of the time in practice uneven legs of four legged objects are within a small enough tolerance margin that they can be considered mostly equal, but floors are surprisingly less even than we initially suspect, their vertical variability being perceptually dwarfed by their overall surface.

I think it is. The research paper is probably most useful when printed out, folded and placed under the short leg.

> criticisms of a pure math theorem being applied to physics

Next you're going to tell me the Moving sofa problem isn't really about moving sofas!