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

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.

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

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.