Knowing how is just part of it and is not really that important to a player to know all the tiny scientific details. There's not one good or great player out there now on any Tour and in the past that knows as much as Steve T about the science but they all can whoop his ass, how is that possible he knows more.
On a conscious level yeah, but these guys have a much deeper understanding of these concepts, which arent confined to graphs and calculations. But graphs and calculations can be used to help those who dont have this understanding.