[felippee]

Hey, a small advice for the future: never build your belief entirely on a youtube video of a demo. In fact, never build your belief based on a demo, period.

This is notorious with current technology: you can demonstrate anything. A few years ago Tesla demonstrated a driverless car. And what? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

I'm willing to believe stuff I can test myself at home. If it works there, it likely actually works (though possibly needs more testing). But demo booths and youtube - never.

[paul_milovanov]

Your advice would be a lot more convincing if you had a youtube video of a demo to come with it. Just saying. :P

[tensor]

You can't test most of high end physics at home. I hope that doesn't mean you don't believe it!

[shub]

A lab publishes an exciting result, what does the physics community do? Wait for replication. Or if you’re LHC, be very careful what you publish.

[sanxiyn]

In theory, there are two separate experiments (ATLAS and CMS) on LHC because of this. In practice, they are probably not independent enough.

[oldgradstudent]

It's probably a good idea to ignore high-end physics results for a few years, though.

The BICEP2 fiasco is a good example why.