Wasn't another famous negative result the refutation of the "vital
principle" which presupposed that substances from living entities were
inherently different from those from non-living?
I guess the essential feature of an important negative result is the
clearly-observed absence of something predicted by a
theory/hypothesis.
Zero-intensity reflections might be a good example of commonly-used
yet important negative results.
JPK
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Bryan Lepore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It would be important to recall the most famous null result : the Michelson-Morley experiment, published in The American Journal of Science, explained 18 years later.
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