«Jedek is not a
language spoken by an
unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village
previously studied by anthropologists.
After spending months translating the nuclear physics finding into the
language of particle physics and ensuring that no particle physics experiments contradicted it, the Irvine team determined that the beryllium - 8 anomaly is «beautifully» explained by the presence of a
previously unknown «vector boson» — a type of particle that would wield a little - felt fifth force of nature.