As long as the experiment conforms to your expectations, they don’t even need to simulate it. The only way they could get into trouble is if you expect a logical contradiction, they didn’t spot it in advance, and you might eventually work that out.
“Oh, it turns out that was experimental error.”
at least now that we have better equipment the earlier result seems not to be repeatable.
… which is a fairly common scenario.
As long as the experiment conforms to your expectations, they don’t even need to simulate it. The only way they could get into trouble is if you expect a logical contradiction, they didn’t spot it in advance, and you might eventually work that out.
“Oh, it turns out that was experimental error.”
at least now that we have better equipment the earlier result seems not to be repeatable.
… which is a fairly common scenario.