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Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
I think the Higgs Boson assumption is a bad example as it´s purpose was to find the smallest particle which assumingly should give an attractive force at all particles.The Higgs boson was predicted by theory, but there was no observable evidence for it until CERN was built at non-trivial cost.
It's not relevant that it succeeded, you say, that experiment should never have been tried?
Such an assumption is derived only from the fundamental assumed gravity force and completely disconnected from all other fundamental forces, hence its nothing worth at all.
At least I´m having no troubles focusing in the failures in modern cosmology and in several cases I even wouldn´t described some scientists as "best brains" at all as they simply are parroting old and outdated dogmas.You have a problem, your best brains form an hypothesis, they test the hypothesis. It succeeds, they learn something. It fails, they learn something.