Anomalous particles emerging from the Earth in Antarctica

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Courtesy of the Daily Grail, Live Science has an article dramatically entitled "Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics":
https://www.livescience.com/63692-standa...ysics.html

It seems that on three occasions bursts of high-energy particles have been detected after passing through the Earth. A new paper calculates the probability of the Standard Model producing the observed data as 1 in 3.5 million, so it's suggested they are new particles.

Maybe I'm not really understanding the implications of this. There seem to have been so many new particles over the years. Maybe "extend" would be a more appropriate word than "shatter"?
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(2018-09-29, 12:35 PM)Max_B Wrote: The suggestion from some quarters is that they might be ...  dark matter... 

Well what do ya know?  Invent a god of the gaps, get enough scientists to believe in him and he shows his face!
An explanation? https://m.phys.org/news/2018-10-explanat...ecube.html
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