Science is Hard

Cosmic Variance
By Sean Carroll
Apr 8, 2011 4:46 PMMay 17, 2019 9:27 PM

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The 3-sigma bump reported by Fermilab on Wednesday has garnered a lot of attention. Understandable, since it might be a precious sign of particle physics beyond the Standard Model -- but it's also just a 3-sigma bump, and usually those go away.

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