>tfw you find out your research is wrong.

There's no problem, you achieved more knowledge, your research was a success.

>not using Wikipedia

>>7977783
Daily reminder that Wikipedia is not for original research and this is correct behavior for an online encyclopedia.

I wasted several years in graduate school trying to engineer a mutant variant of green fluorescent protein that had its fluorescence switchable on/off by the presence of a 2nd molecule. We had a proof of concept making a switchable enzyme but that took hours to see the results. Having a light emitting protein that was switchable in real time would be a huge breakthrough. Our ultimate goal was to visualize neurons firing in real time. I spent all night in the lab several times a week and tried everything. Never could get it to work.

I used to joke with a buddy of mine that we need to create a scientific journal for failed experiments. That way people can see all the shit that other people have tried that didn't work. Unfortunately people only publish what works.

In a way I think publishing what didn't work is also important. It could save somebody else a lot of trouble.

>>7977820
Science was never meant to generate success. It was only designed to get humanity out of a mass philosophical slump. Now that we know more about systems evolution we can upgrade the scientific method itself.

>>7977820
now wouldn't be a bad time to look back at it now that you've had time to clear your head

>>7977881
I graduated last year and am now out in the workforce as a senior lab tech. So i cant revisit it. Although it would be awesome to go back and succeed where i previosly failed.

>>7977820
There actually is a journal out there for "failed" results, but I think it has a negative stigma attached to it and doesn't get much in the way of submission or funding so it isn't doing too well.
I can't actually remember the name of it, but if you search "Journal of Failed Results" you can probably dig it up.

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>Star classmate gets to intern and potentially work at a prestigious institute, and you have to go full NEET/radio silence/soul crush to barely work to her level.

At least she likes and remembers my talks after all this time...

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>>7976148
>try to formulate a TQFT on a manifold with boundary and including YM terms
>try to generalize boundary results for wavefunctions to the gauge fields to look for invariants and anomalies
>3 months later and found out that no such generalization exists
Lmao just end my life

>>7977831
When you remove all misunderstanding, what's left is ignorance.

>>7978856
do you even lit review you dumb cuck

>>7976148
I'm grasping at straws trying to salvage my thesis.Feels bad.

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>>7978490
>underachiever ends up doing everything you could have ever wished
>tfw I was the underachiever