"Science is neat but it's not very forgiving"

Posted Friday evening, November 11, 2016.

"In early August, LHC scientists had their answer, and the news was not good. The diphoton bump had vanished back into the noise. It was a random fluctuation after all. That meant more than 500 papers now contained detailed dissections of a signal that did not exist."

Love and loss in the time of colliders – read @AstroKatie's latest Cosmos column: https://t.co/E4JWqNxu99

— Cosmos Magazine (@CosmosMagazine) November 7, 2016

To jump straight to Katie Mack's article, follow the link to "Love and loss in the time of the colliders" at Cosmos Magazine.

Mack opens with one of my favorite quotes from Isaac Asimov:

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘eureka’ but ‘that’s funny’”.