I think this could genuinely be physics beyond the standard model. Even if it's confirmed with the remaining 94% of their dataset that they're still building, the only real impact I can see is quite a few string theorists out of a job. But it might unlock some physics that we could use to understand e.g. the early universe, event horizons, and other extreme regimes. When Gran Sasso was like "eyyyy guys, we got faster than light neutrinos!", that was a "no you don't, check your setup aaaaaaaaaand there's a loose cable" situation. This is not that. It's an entirely separate team of people refining and reconfirming not-yet-understood physics from an earlier team. Here's the announcement seminar: I'd love to talk shop with those guys. It's funny that I work in such a different branch of physics, but our lab setups are eerily similar. Ugh. I miss lab work.