science

According to IGN:

Muons

have a mass the equivalent to 200 times that of an electron, yet last just 2.2 millionths of a second.

Sounds like made-up shit Big Science is using to request more money

Muons go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

and

the team discovered that the Muons were wobbling faster than the Standard Model had predicted. This could indicate the presence of a new force acting on the Muon, or an as-yet unknown subatomic particle altering the nature of the quantum foam that surrounds the Muon.

Now i never specialised in particle accelerators and i can only speak for syncrotron type accelerators (like Diamond in the UK) but i took exams about them and i got to tour one so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Generally, they're a pretty normal thing in particle physics and materials science now, like, they're places where a bunch of people have relatively dull 9-5 jobs and parts of them are rented out to random companies. Mostly they're used for medical/drug research and semiconductor stuff now, and to my knowledge they've discovered nothing that would excite the general public for years.

They can't really be a 'failed theory', because they're SUPER useful for telling us whats in shit and how materials behave, they're just not the magical world-ending bullshit that the news like to say they are. No one really expected them to be (except the media trying to farm clicks). Making stuff go fast is fun and informative, thats all we need

I've heard that we hit diminishing returns a while ago and we're at a point where whatever we're seeing is so ephemeral and minute that any conclusions drawn from it are questionable. But I'm just some guy.