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It would be good if this were true, but this is just another shibboleth. Nothing done in the Large Hadron Collider is reproducible. Theoretically, yes. In practice, no. Only the LHC itself can run those experiments again, and there's always other new things to do.

Ultimately, one major factor is the credentials of the experimenters. We may not like it, but some of the major experiments done today do boil down to "proof by authority".




There are bigger, better, faster colliders in the works (I think) or will be planned. Won't they be able to reproduce it independently?




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