Perhaps the question could also be asked this way: How many times does the LHC have to inexplicably fail before we take it as scientific confirmation that world-destroying black holes and/or strange particles are indeed produced by LHC-level collisions? Would we treat such a scenario as a successful experimental result for the LHC?
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Another thought. Suppose a functioning LHC does in fact produce world-destroying scenarios. Would we see: A) an LHC with mechanical failures? or B) an LHC where all collisions happen except world-destroying ones? If B, would the LHC be giving us biased experimental results?
“The man should have investigated the rainbow scientifically and then feel wonder when he understood the physics behind it.”
But surely a sense of wonder doesn’t necessarily have to come from scientific understanding? But I’d agree that if a scientific understanding destroyed Keats’s sense of wonder, then that was a bug in Keats, not a bug in scientific understanding.