Anomalies can be annoying, they can niggle and cause discomfort. Some experimental measurement comes along that seems to be ignorant of the established order and breaks the rules. Perplexed by what is happening, people come up with conflicting accounts of what might be happening. Ideas get knocked off pedestals, confidence is knocked. Frustrating, for sure, but necessary, too: anomalies and impossibilities are the crucial engines in bettering our understanding of the universe.
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