Originally Posted by
Kontact
Scientific testing is neutral. It performs experiments to document pertinent results. Sometimes those results support the theory, sometimes they disprove it, and sometimes they do neither.
A scientific hypothesis must be formulated in a manner that makes it falsifiable. The researcher’s job is to try to disprove it… And if the researcher is unsuccessful, the hypothesis is tentatively accepted. And then other researchers will try to disprove it. Rinse and repeat.
Your example involving the particle would have been formulated along these lines.