Some of the theories like gravity waves and Higgs boson took almost half a century to be confirmed by experimentation.
The hard part about this is building tools that can precisely measure mass fluctuations with extremely low error bars at picosecond timescales.
Because we need to both validate the theory and that the device is correctly measuring.
So much of science became only possible because of better instruments. Be it microscopes to see the tiniest phenomena or telescopes to observe the furthest phenomena.
Some of the theories like gravity waves and Higgs boson took almost half a century to be confirmed by experimentation.
The hard part about this is building tools that can precisely measure mass fluctuations with extremely low error bars at picosecond timescales.
Because we need to both validate the theory and that the device is correctly measuring.
So much of science became only possible because of better instruments. Be it microscopes to see the tiniest phenomena or telescopes to observe the furthest phenomena.