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27 - What Does the Muon g-2 Result Mean for Physics?

Why This Universe?

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The Logic of the Brookhaven Results

This is a 4.2 standard deviation or 4.2 sigma deviation from the standard model prediction. The chance probability of getting something like that extremely off is one in roughly 40,000. Fermilabs provided an independent measurement of the same thing and got about the same answer.

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