Nick Nechvoldoff: Why do scientists accept findings of experiments using the Large Hadron Collider when they can't be replicated with independent apparatuses? He says there's lots of reasons. They can, to some extent, be replicated because there's more than one detector. But even if there were only one of them, you would have less credence on the results, he adds.
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