The hunt for the Higg's Boson, and the "failure" to find it after all these years just seems like a reminder that empirical evidence > theoretical models. Just

The hunt for the Higg's Boson, and the "failure" to find it after all these years just seems like a reminder that empirical evidence > theoretical models. Just because the math seems elegant doesn't mean it necessarily applies to the universe we are living in. I presume you're using quotes around "failure" to remind us that, in fact, there has been no such thing. We haven't explored the full energy range where our models suggest the Higgs boson(s) could live, and even where we have searched, we haven't accrued enough data for a statistically significant result--positive or negative. Claiming we have failed to find the Higgs is like claiming tigers don't exist without leaving New York.