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> 5 sigma

Sounds like there's new physics to be gleaned from the phenomenon.

I don't know why this is downvoted (maybe I'm missing a bad joke)? But this is exactly why people are excited about this. Either,

a) we have a systematic in our measurement and our model is right and eventually we'll work this out when we fix up everything, or

b) our model isn't right and there is new physics (i.e. something not in Lambda CDM + GR) that explains this discrepancy.

Perhaps I should have used the conditional - "there might be new physics".

But yeah, that's the long and short of it.

It was obvious you were just guessing. No need to be politically correct about it.

There'll need to be a few more funerals first.