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Thanks for the well thought out reply. So IIUC it's (probably) not that this result is the One True Answer in itself, but rather a potential chink in the armor

Thanks for the well thought out reply. So IIUC it's (probably) not that this result is the One True Answer in itself, but rather a potential chink in the armor that tells us where to pry.

ISL 6y ago
Yes. There are well-known places where we think the armor might be weak and we're trying all of them roughly equally. The moment someone finds an actual hole in the armor, a lot of people will jump in and hammer on that one in particular. The key properties of the weak points are: a) We have to be able to hit it there in a meaningful way b) Anywhere that we expend millions of dollars and oodles of people-years of work to look for holes, we have to be capable of verifying that a possible-hole is an actual-hole. This particular anomaly scores pretty well on b). If they have a clean signal there, then it is a pretty big deal.