disproving things is much more fundamental to the scientific process than actually confirming things. Confirming things is a bizarre byproduct, a happy accident. We must foster a culture that celebrates a killed hypothesis more than a confirmed one.
Something was disproven here, the null hypothesis of “the standard model without the higgs mechanism is sufficient to explain all known physical phenomena”.
disproving things is much more fundamental to the scientific process than actually confirming things. Confirming things is a bizarre byproduct, a happy accident. We must foster a culture that celebrates a killed hypothesis more than a confirmed one.
Something was disproven here, the null hypothesis of “the standard model without the higgs mechanism is sufficient to explain all known physical phenomena”.