Modern physics is too complex and expensive at the cutting edge to do the entire "hypothesis, experiment, result" process in one paper. It's very normal for sup

Modern physics is too complex and expensive at the cutting edge to do the entire "hypothesis, experiment, result" process in one paper. It's very normal for support for a hypothesis to build up through theoretical physics papers over many years, leading to sufficient funding at a facility capable of testing the hypothesis. The Higgs Boson is a great example of this, theorized 40 years before it could finally be discovered at the LHC, a machine which wouldn't have been possible at all with the technology of the time when the Higgs boson was proposed as the computing capability to digest the Petabytes of data generated simply did not exist. Plus, with these things there's a bit of a chicken and egg issue where part of the impetus for building these expensive machines is to test theories which have been gaining support, so if those theories weren't being shared, there's no way to really say if the machines to test them could even exist. Neutrinos, time crystals and gravitational waves are other notable examples of things where it would not be practical to expect theoreticians to wait the decade(s) for technology to catch up before presenting their theories.