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Old 30-09-2016, 11:59 AM
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I suspect the OP has been edited, as I had no trouble reading the link to the article. There is an anomaly in some published collider experiments from one group that another group have identified. Everything else is interesting speculation and this is not the first time something like this has occurred. Previously, similar anomalies have been resolved when experimental design or measurement error were analysed in detail, or more data reduced the probability that the anomaly was not just a statistical fluke. This is how science works and progresses, but the science communication industry only reports on the wild speculation and not the slow slog of verifying and checking.
Worth watching to see how it resolves, but I won't be throwing away my textbooks anytime soon.
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