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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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