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Discover Magazine reported that physicists had discovered a new fundamental particle of matter, dubbed the Bigon. It could only be coaxed into existence for mere millionths of a second, but amazingly, when it did materialize it was the size of a bowling ball. Physicist Albert Manque and his colleagues accidentally found the particle when a computer connected to one of their vacuum-tube experiments exploded. Video analysis of the explosion revealed the Bigon hovering over the computer for a fraction of a second. Manque theorized that the Bigon might be responsible for a host of other unexplained phenomena such as ball lightning, sinking souffles, and spontaneous human combustion.
...or maybe they just got luckyHmm, well, not only would such a particle be inconsistent with known physics, but I have to wonder what video camera could record a clear image during an explosion of something only there for a millionth of a second when normal video only captures 24 frames a second? In other words, the Bigon would only be there for less than 1/42,000th of the frame!
They would have to been using a highly specialized scientist camera on the order of typically costing half a million dollars or more.