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God the Prankster Pranks Physics Again, MUON g-2 Wobbles

One of the few joys in living in this materialistic, corrupt, pedestrian, dull, uninspired, shrill and superfluous epoch is watching, on seemingly a daily basis, the fundamental foundations of cosmology, the science of physics, being debunked, with every new scientific discovery; leaving physics more mystified and confused than before.   It is as if someone is jerking physics around, belittling it, and holding it up to ridicule.   Could it be God the Prankster?   This week it is MUONS playing havoc with physics.   “ On Wednesday, April 7, the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab released its eagerly awaited first result. In the experiment, muons (like electrons but heavier) race around the 150-foot circumference magnetic racetrack, wobbling as they go like tops slowly spinning on their axes.   Quantum mechanics allows for "virtual" subatomic particles to ever so briefly come in and out of existence and affect the wobble of muons. The Fermilab experiment measures this wobbling with