THE RATIONALE. “Thus, when a well-designed and -executed program “fails” to find the sought-after phenomenon, that null result can be expressed as the lower surface of the explored volume, which represents a new upper limit that future experiments can improve upon. Once the entire parameter space a phenomenon could occupy has been excluded by experiment, we can speak of the null result as being dispositive: the sought-after phenomenon does not exist.”
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