To be clear, I was meaning that it looks that they did publish it like they intended to. Not something like "this is what we tried but we are probably wrong".

To be clear, I was meaning that it looks that they did publish it like they intended to. Not something like "this is what we tried but we are probably wrong". But also, even in the other way, this is not a scientific experiment that failed. It is more like a non sense mathematical demonstration with some magic variable that were made up to get the expected result. So it does not really have any value except the content of the current article. For example if I do a paper like: "Getting a glass of water from starting a TV" We were able to demonstrate that we can get a glass of water by starting a tv with the following steps: - take the tv remote - power on the tv - assume we have XX - result: we have a glass of water - note: we considered XX to be "Michel brings us a glass of water" for this experiment. - note2: famous mathematician told us that our study is gargabe