Could be a we need more funding bump.
I think the most probable “explanation for this mysterious bump” is that “once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it.” and they need a publicity stunt to look for donors.
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'Sounds like a Punzi scheme to me....
I’m still waiting for confirmation that 2 Princeton physicists claimed was a particle they were able to accelerate that was faster than light-this was several years ago. BTW-how would you ever prove something is faster than light?
I have long believed there is a kind of a massless particle that carries momentum at sub-speed of light velocities.
And the sum total of that momentum, divided by C, is the dark-matter side of the universe.
Fermi Lab is about 25 minutes from me.....a huge complex in a suburban Chicago campus/park setting with deer running around the wooded part of the vast acreage.
The Lab has money to operate till September. A request was put in to the feds for $100 million to keep the Tevatron running for three more years.....but the request was denied by the Department of Energy.
The Lab hope to reassign the major employees but lots of the more peripheral ones will lose their jobs....and the merchants and businesses in the adjacent town of Batavia will take a big hit.
Leni
Been there...Done that...Nice try guys...