Citing an inability to reproduce the original experiment, as well as a disappointing re-analysis of the data from it, the team's leader, Ken Gregorich, has sent a retraction of the claim to Physical Review Letters, the journal that first published it.As these physicists can testify, life in the upper echelons of the periodic table of elements can be nasty, brutish and short.
In that disaster, witnesses have testified, life rafts became tangled and panicked workers could not find knives to cut themselves free.
And the production now comes with compelling projections by Justin West: vintage photographs, film clips and more that testify to life during the Weimar Republic, especially for Jews and gay people, and to life as it continued for the lucky ones who got out of Hitler's Germany in time.
At a few stops, several former gang members aboard the bus took the microphone to testify to life on the streets, something several tourists said they found to be the most riveting part of the tour.
"The only real breaking point," he adds, "is when documentary actually becomes fiction, but more often than not, as many great documentaries testify, real life does often turn out to be a hell of a lot stranger than anything you could make up".
Carlos called his 25-year-old neighbor, Sofía, to come over and testify to life as a temporary contractor.
Carlos called his 25-year-old neighbor, Sofia, to come over and testify to life as a temporary contractor.
One resident, the president of a public housing leadership group, testified that life for families harassed by stop-and-frisk policies in their own apartment buildings was like life in a "penal colony".
Those who came to hear music wanted to feel the floorboards solid under their feet, yet vibrant with sound that testified to life still unfolding.
Both positions are valid, but only up to a point, as the realities of business life testify.
As Dean Richards can testify, sometimes in life you get what you deserve and the Newcastle side he has spent the past nine months fashioning into a respected force certainly did on Wednesday night.
