At the risk of oversimplifying, this is the lack of noticeably non-random fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background spectrum measured by Planck.

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But at the moment, the apparent increase could be attributed to any number of factors, such as better diagnosis, or random fluctuations in the incidence of the disease, rather than the start of an epidemic.

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Both ATLAS and CMS have seen a number of these predicted patterns often enough to pique interest, but not (yet) often enough to constitute proof that they came from Higgses, rather than being random fluctuations in the background of non-Higgs decays.

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For instance, random electrical fluctuations tend to overwhelm them unless they are kept chilled with liquid nitrogen although making the islands smaller, paradoxically, reduces this problem.

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Over the short term, the fluctuations look pretty much as if they were random numbers plucked from a lottery bowl.

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