It’s a bump, a weird bump in collision data at Fermilab’s soon-to-be shuttered Tevatron collider. Weird bumps happen; it might not mean anything. But, as it stands, this particular bump is showing that there’s an extra something in the products of post-collision particle delays, and that something is unexplainable.It might not be real, of course. The finding is rated as “3-sigma” which means it’s enough to get excited about but, you know, not too excited or anything. Sean Carroll at my favorite cranky physicist blog, Cosmic Variance, explains that most 3-sigma effects just go away as more data is collected.Here’s the bump. It’s the result of a ton of collisions. After we do several tons more—in progress right now at the LHC—it might average away.But maybe not. If it’s real, then we get into the finding out of what it is (not the Higgs, by the by). In any case, finding new mysteries is the best possible outcome of all of this kind of research. Not to make it sound like a game or anything.Also, note that this is like the third new physics type of thing at Fermilab in the past year: