Fermi KO's LHC With Amazing Discovery!!!

Looks to me kind of like that Mohenjo-Daro mandala they used, or abused, in Mimsy. Probably not an accident.

This is awesome. Win for Fermi and for particle physics.

Also to clarify: The picture given is a picture of a series of collisions that involved the creation of an isolated top quark. It is not a picture of a top quark itself. (At least that's how I understand it. I am not a physicist)

Just to clarify, it doesn't look very much like that Mohenjo-Daro mandala, and to the extent that it does, it's probably an accident.

One further clarification, this is not a naked top quark which is not part of a meson or baryon -- it's a top-quark without its anti-matter partner. Some weak processes, QCD processes and electromagnetic processes naturally produce equal-and-opposite pairs of matter and anti-matter. Here, a rare weak force process resulted in a quark-antiquark pair which was not top-antitop.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0885

CF: Figure 1 which shows processes which involve only the W boson.

and to the extent that it does, it's probably an accident.

Or else it could be that time of year when silliness reigns and you can't trust any news story you read.