a new force of nature?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/science/06particle.html?_r=2

"once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it."

"Damn, we need money, let's make something up for this statistical error to keep the money coming"

In German because I`m lazy today

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,755597,00.html

Ich zitiere jetzt einfach mal einen Kommentar von Spiegel.de, den ich ohne zu zögern unterschreiben würde.

"Rühren wir doch mal im Topf der Gerüchteküche.
Interessant, daß diese "Naturenergie" wenige Wochen nach den apokalyptischen Ereignissen in Japan aufkommt. Zu einer Zeit, in der die Akzeptanz für Kernenergie weltweit schwindet und klar wird, daß auch Öl bald ausgetrunken sein wird.

Mögliches Szenario: Man kannte diese Kraft schon lange, hat es aber verschwiegen, um aus den bestehenden Energiequelle weiter Profit ziehen zu können.

Nun ist der Druck so groß, daß man "mit der Neuen" rausrücken muß.
Ja, Verschwörungstheorie - und?
worth discussion."

Wer geht mit?

Haha, nice. Especially matching to "said Christopher Hill, a theorist at Fermilab who was not part of the team. “If it is real, it would be the most significant discovery in physics in half a century.” ".

yes, that could be the reason.

but their competition, the LHC guys seem to be excited about it too and they will examine their data. so maybe it's not complete nonsense?

Oh come on guys. Not everything new is necessarily someone trying to trick you. It's not like they say "we've discovered something new", they're saying "we might have discovered something new".

They also know (and say) that CERN will be interested in this, so they're actually passing this knowledge on to the LHC-guys, not desperately trying to save their own collider.

Das kann ich zu 100% unterschreiben. Die müssen große Lobbyarbeit geleistet haben, dass sie das so lang geheimhalten konnten.

By all their "assuming" it's easy to see, all they want is more money. If they didn't happen to "probably find" something new, they would lose their job soon.