"That's a dangerous way to start thinking - one we're explicitly warned against as kids. You don't say that some results Reality can give you are the experiment 'working' and some are 'not working'. Think of the timing measurements; Willa's and Alexandre's first observations there didn't get them 'NO' answers, but those were far from failures."
"That's the same mindset you'd have to break out of to solve spellsilver refining. Experiments on spellsilver don't have failed results, or successful results, they just have results. Every experiment tells you something truthful about Reality, which is the world you are embedded in, it never lies. Maybe your instruments are broken or don't do what you think they do, and then what Reality is really telling you is not what you think you are hearing. But that's your own error. Reality never lies."