Finally one can imagine a category of experiments that refute well-accepted theories, theories that have become part of the standard consensus of physics. Under this category I can find no examples whatever in the past one hundred years. There are of course many cases where theories have been found to have a narrower realm of application than had been thought. Newton’s theory of motion does not apply at high speeds. Parity, the symmetry between right and left, does not work in the weak forces. And so on. But in this century no theory that has been generally accepted as valid by the world of
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