‘Proof’ is a specific mathematical term where someone ends up with a statement like ‘3 = 3’. Someone else can check their work but they can’t do another ‘proof’ that shows contrary results. Whereas in science a given experiment provides not proof but evidence. Others can perform endless other experiments to try and show contrary results and so on.
So you think there’s still hope for the phlogiston hypothesis of combustion, heh? Or, that somewhere, sometime, someone will repeat Lavoisier’s experiment, and get different results. Are you well?
Hank