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by jaculabilis 597 days ago
> I think the author is using the original motivation of musing on null hypotheses to derive the title "The Higgs Discovery Did Not Take Place",

It's probably a reference to "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place" by Jean Baudrillard, which took a similar critical view of the Gulf War as TFA takes of the Higgs discovery.

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Possibly! I remember that but completely missed it as an inspiration here.