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Ok taking bets now, missing muons are..

[ ] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other

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[x] issue with calculations [ ] go away with more data [x] new physics! [ ] other

or the general answer: [x] italians

Nah, they're not missing, they just arrive earlier than expected

(ah it seems some old prejudices are still alive ;) )

I'm using CAEN (Italian company) digitizers in nuclear research, and I've expended at least 6 months sussing out firmware problems for our simple experiments.

[x++] italians

I'm hoping it's some kind of temporal fuzzing where particles are going backwards in time and causing interference with both past and future events.

No reason other than because that'd be awesome.

You mean like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb...

They just need to reverse polarity on the LHC!

Would it even be possible to measure this?

Exactly. It'd be so downright bizarre and difficult to pin down that we'd probably go nuts thinking we were all delusional to imagine such a thing could exist in the first place.

Then when we have proof we'd be even more confused.

I'd settle for figuring out how to send an email to a previous point in time. I'd like to email myself in 2009. Something about buying a bunch of ASIC's and mining something for a long-term hold.

No need to mine it. Just buy in bulk at $1 and hold.

Bitcoin market cap is still pretty small as far as global financial markets go. I'd have doubts at being able to extract serious amount of money from it. I'd bet you can find something much more conventional to invest in that'll produce big gains that can be extracted easily.

You know in that timeline you'd spend a fortune on ASIC mining hardware and the market would tank because Murphy's Law could not possibly resist showing up and ruining the party.

[X] other

Some interesting patterns in the data which don't quite line up with accepted theory but aren't statistically conclusive.

Well, that's the story at the moment. The question is what will it turn out to be once the analyses are repeated with more data.

Which event/study/? are you referring to here?

https://indico.cern.ch/event/580620/attachments/1442409/2226...

There are several independent anomalous results in measurements of b-quark decays which all seem to point to a violation of lepton flavour universality. Specifically a reduced coupling to muons.

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