• Wheaties [comrade/them]
    hexbear
    12
    7 months ago

    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.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
      hexbear
      24
      edit-2
      7 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".