@Science_George@mastodon.world
2026-09-23 12:01 UTC
This incident just highlighted that even a statistically significant observation in excess of 6σ doesn't necessarily require any new phenomenon to exist, just that any such observation would be extremely unlikely to be merely some statistical fluke, or known systematic error.
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@Science_George@mastodon.world 2026-09-23 12:02
Of course what it doesn't rule out is mistakes inadvertently introduced by experimenters, or from unknown equipment malfunction, or from some concealed flaw in experimental setup, etc. Soooo, in the case of the OPERA experiment, what was ultimately determined to be at fault? 5/