TL;DR: All the hype and rumours about a new discovery at the LHC [1][2][3][4] that looked like a particle outside of the standard model was for naught. As the L

TL;DR: All the hype and rumours about a new discovery at the LHC [1][2][3][4] that looked like a particle outside of the standard model was for naught. As the LHC detectors gathered and processed more data, the "diphoton bumps" turned from interesting anomalies to statistically insignificant noise [5]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893164 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893164 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250931 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11250931 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9420043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9420043 [4] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/potential-new-particle-shows-up-at-the-lhc-thrilling-and-confounding-physicists1/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/potential-new-part... [5] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hope-for-new-particle-fizzles-at-the-lhc1/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hope-for-new-parti...