It is not possible for experiments to disprove the Null hypothesis regarding the effects of nutrition on cashmere production as they can only report a failure to detect treatment effects.
The key lay in sparking a passionate belief in a simple core idea: doing experiments to disprove what everybody knows, rather than doing experiments to confirm what we already know.
In her excellent account of the history of ideas about the origin of life, Fry (2000) qualifies as a "dead end" the confrontation between Louis Pasteur's (1822 1895) experiments to disprove spontaneous generation and the assumption of a natural origin of life within a Darwinian context.
Duane carried out a series of meticulous experiments to disprove Compton, but instead found overwhelming evidence that Compton was correct.
Duane carried out a series of experiments to disprove Compton, but instead found evidence that Compton was correct.
The other main type of science is experimental science, which is often said to work by conducting experiments to disprove hypotheses about the workings and causes of natural phenomena – note that this approach cannot confirm a hypothesis is correct, since some later experiment may disprove it.
Less convincingly, he defends free will from the Libet experiments which purport to disprove it.
The Italy-based experiment, which is an Italian and Chinese team, all along they've been saying we are absolutely sure that we are right and there's nothing these other experiments can do to disprove it – basically, if they disagree with us it's because they are wrong.
Science is about careful observation and planning, good record keeping, and building a strong foundation for future experiments by continually attempting to disprove previous hypotheses.
Discussing the Michelson-Morley experiment in the 1880s, which purported to disprove the previous findings of the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell about the speed of light, Professor Orzel calls it "arguably the greatest failed experiment in the history of physics".
