If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.
Everybody, as soon as they do a good experiment, their first thought in this lab is, 'That can't be right. I must have screwed it up. What did I do wrong?' And that's the best kind of scientist because they're filled with this self-doubt. And if I'm going to be honest, that's who I am. And it's what drives me.
One of the distinguishing features of anything that aspires to the name of science is the reproducibility of experimental results.
Everything is an experiment.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.