[circlecity]

"If they were fired for doing the test then the test got done. But any such test is an exercise in trying to prove a negative which is a logically flawed enterprise from the outset."

No, they were fired for proposing to do the research. And no, it's not unreasonable to investigate a negative. Like all science, we investigate probabilities in order to ascertain predictability. .

[tacticalogic]

No, they were fired for proposing to do the research. And no, it's not unreasonable to investigate a negative.

Any idea what the probability is of successfully modeling the universe to account for all the possible variables in order to be able to say you have actually calculated the probabilities of a particular event happening?