More discussion, back from the data release announcement in April: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-is-it-when-somet...

(Warning, extremely jargon heavy, particularly the comments.)

Cool! From my layman's read of that, the odds are good for new physics and/or a new particle, and it sounds like said new particle is actually in a soon-detectable range. That's pretty ideal!

Yes, but "soon" in experimental particle physics means something like: probably within the next 20 years.

Ya, physics does seem to require quite a bit of patience. Anything that could possibly get figured out during my lifetime I count as a win :)

And keep in mind that these are theorists, the eternal optimists. Or think of your (least?) favorite group of sports fans, just before the season starts, talking about how awesome it's going to be. That mental image isn't too far off...

(In case it wasn't obvious, I'm on the experimental side of things. There's a reason Jester says we're i brutti, and he isn't wrong....)

There's also a nice discussion from Sixty Symbols when the news came out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzn4o4z5Bk

It's "explained" to the reader of the comics. The title had me expect it was "explained scientifically", in other words "solved by the scientists".

So the Fermilab team got a bigger value for σ than Brookhaven? What is σ?

It took me a while to find that fallen forward q - lower case sigma σ

Can the page title contain markup? On my browser, I see `<i>g</i>` in the title on the tab.

I just heard Wilczek describe this