Didn’t the “discovery” of the Higgs boson require lots of people to spend lots of time poring over lots of data before they finally came to the conclusion that, yes, they had found something?
It’s not entirely clear from the press release, but it seems that the timing is largely coincidental and that these “discoveries” are based on data collected several years ago. It seems very unlikely that they could casually hit a button and find a particle.
