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the International Conference on High Energy Physics (Paris, July 2010)

Friday, July 16, 2010

Provocative 3-sigmas results theorem

Theorem: any experiment that is scheduled to be turned off will have provocative 3-sigma results.

Lemma: any experiment that has been running a long time and measures many things will have provocative 3-sigma results.
Posted by Marco Delmastro at 9:27 PM
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