Daniel Whiteson

And a bump is how you make a discovery, a little pile of collisions that all look very, very similar.

And it was in a place we didn't expect at all.

And I had tingles.

I was like, oh my gosh, is this, have we done it?

And we spent six months cross-checking it.

Is there a mistake?

Did we miscalculate something?

Are we biasing ourselves somehow?

And there was nothing we could do to make this bump go away.

And I started to believe, I thought, oh my gosh,

And you know, this is big stuff, right?

We could be discovering something that changes our understanding of the universe.

I start to think like, wow, this is, you know, we're making history here.

But the problem is that we look at a lot of data.

And so when you look at, you know, 10,000 different distributions of data, occasionally you're gonna see one that looks weird.

Just like if you try flipping a coin 10 times and you do that 1,000 times, you're going to get some weird ones where you get lots and lots of heads.

So we didn't know if we just sifted through so many examples of data that we were just picking out the weirdest one or not.

So we had to wait for more fresh data.

So we ran the collider a couple more months and waited, and then the bump went away.

So it was just a random fluctuation, unfortunately.