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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, people really focus on the fact that we don't evidence for very exotic theories and completely ignore the LHC finally got experimental confirmation of the particle that gives mass to other particles within the standard model. (I guess Higgs mechanism technically wasn't part of the standard model prior to experimental confirmation but styll)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Something was disproven here, the null hypothesis of "the standard model without the higgs mechanism is sufficient to explain all known physical phenomena".