Negative results - (Jan/12/2008 )

Hello all,
This website has been so useful to me for increasing my research skills. I thank all members who participate and take time out to help others.
I have been getting a few negative results for my Ph.D. dissertation project. (Not that they did not work) ...Few experiments that I did, did not prove my hypothesis. I was wondering if it is a good idea to put them as a chapter in my thesis since I wasted a lot of my time doing those. I know it does not look very good in a thesis, but I'm not sure. Please do let me know if anyone has some ideas on this.

Thank you.

for my own manuscript, i left some experiments which also took me long period to do. These were part unclear, and as they were part unexplained too, i did not had enough time to think about them again and again to find a good and "check-able" explanation. So i left them, because the thesis is like a story which goes to the point. You can mention on your discussion (if relevant) that some experience shows interesting resultsd but you can't bound them to your current results.
You have to see.

Compare the fact to left some results with the fact you read many and many publications, and a thessi does not hold so many references in final manuscript.

Thank you "the Bearer" and "Fred-33" for your inputs.