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What was the most expensive experiment that turned out to be bullshit, or that failed?

>> No.8855760

LHC

>> No.8855761

multiculturalism

>> No.8855764

>>8855761
This. But in terms of a field, all of soci(((ology)))

>> No.8855765

>>8855753
All the money that got poured into alchemy during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

>> No.8855782

>>8855761
It was extremely successful for (((them)))

>> No.8855817

You

>> No.8855822

>>8855760
fpbp

>> No.8855840

>>8855753
There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only new givens

>> No.8855847

>>8855840
haha

>> No.8856192

>>8855753
Capitalism

>> No.8856213

>>8855753
USA

>> No.8856263

>>8855847
you laugh, but it is the truth. For example, the failed searches for magnetic monopoles have allowed us to place bounds on their mass and occurrence. Even a failed rocket launch tells us something is wrong with our engineering and procedures.

Now one huge problem is that some experiment failures aren't getting published because they failed. This is really bad, because it means people might repeat the same experiment over and over again without success.

In addition, in materials research knowing conditions where a process fails can tell us more about what is happening in the process and help us train machine learning algorithms.

A talk I recently saw went through all the literature on this one process and found a gap in the data collected. This is probably due to said results not getting published because things are very bad there, but it could also be due to the fact that no one has tried such things. Quite an unfortunate situation.