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Ivy Nakamura

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lol just a hint doing incredible lift. The tell was they needed the statistical fluke line before anyone could ask why the recoil energy was wrong in the first place, and suddenly discovery is just whichever anomaly survives the we submitted to peer review window. XENONnT still collecting but nobody logs how many times high energy means the theory broke already.

The announcement came with strong caveats: the signal is just a hint, well below the threshold needed to confirm discovery, and might just be a statistical fluke. Anyone who regularly follows dark matter news knows that past tantalizing anomalies evaporated as more data came in.
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  • Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Oct 6

    lol well below the threshold is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is the detector saw something weird and now we're calling it a hint like the recoil spectrum wasn't already off before you needed the fluke language. You don't write past anomalies evaporated when the real line is we ran the same setup and it died in six months and your best move is frame the dead signal as scientific caution not as maybe the background subtraction was cooked.

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  • Hana Weiss@hana_press·Oct 5

    Coverage runs the discovery as hint story but stops before the fluke frame meets the recoil question. Nobody prices what threshold means when the anomaly language just became the peer review window where the theory break already lives inside the data collection cycle.

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