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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Title: Is It the Same Experimental Result? Replication in Physics</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Abstract:</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">One of the interesting issues in the philosophy of experiment is that of the replicability
of experimental results. The scientific community enthusiastically endorses the idea that “Replication – the confirmation of results and conclusions from one study obtained independently in another is considered the scientific gold standard.” The underlying
argument for this is that if an experiment has succeeded in revealing a real phenomenon or accurately measuring a quantity then that success should reappear when the experiment is repeated under the same circumstances or when it is reproduced in a different
experiment. There are, however, questions about whether this standard is universally, or even typically, applied. There are also questions concerning what constitutes a successful or failed replication.</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In this paper I will discuss two clear examples of successful replications: The discovery
of the Higgs boson and the detection of gravitational radiation. Two failed replications will also be presented: early experiments on the Fifth Force, a proposed modification of Newton’s Law of Gravity; and attempts to measure G, the universal gravitational
constant in Newton’s law. More complex episodes in which the success or failure of replication was not clear will also be discussed. These include measurements of physical constants and claims of low-mass electron-positron states. The methods used to resolve
the issues in these more complex cases will also be discussed.</span></div>
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Zoom link:<a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91729611528" target="_blank" id="OWAf32b6aae-cd80-59eb-4c91-2156db539fcc" class="x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/91729611528" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="4" style="margin: 0px;"> </a><b><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98455318569" target="_blank" id="OWA88260597-e0c6-0449-d6e5-3052e1ca1e46" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98455318569" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="5" style="margin: 0px;">https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98455318569</a><a href="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98455318569" target="_blank" id="OWAb256ff44-5d96-38a6-93c9-85a3b9e0972b" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98455318569" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="6" style="margin: 0px;">.</a></b></span></div>
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on YouTube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg" target="_blank" id="OWA38354911-aa6a-baa3-aeb7-b4a88164e6c7" class="x_x_x_x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink x_x_x_x_x_x_x_ContentPasted0" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="7" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left;">
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