It's Sunday and not much happening anywhere of much concern to me.  I could go spiritual, but can't think of anything worthwhile. Two items, though, the tiniest possible, and the second as vast as it can be, caught my attention: Fundamental physicists just reported that a fundamental particle had more mass than expected, throwing the whole field into turmoil. A W boson is supposed to have an energy effect of 80,357,000 electron volts. Hard to believe this is even physically possible, but a team of 400 scientists associated with the U.S. Fermi National Accelerator Lab reported in  Science  that they measured 80,433,000 ev.   This difference of a slightly more than one part in a thousand means that their understanding of nature is wrong! So what is the solution?  Run another 10-year study or two. Then what happens if the Fermi result is confirmed?  Then quantum mechanics will need to find another Standard Model. Perhaps all this bewilderment will someday instead be settled when

   From  Worldometer  (new deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9     1093     4732       1185        246        82 July    22     1205     7128        1293      1120       572 Aug    12     1504     6556       1242       835       130 Sept     9      1208    6222        1136      1168        82 Oct     21     1225     6849         571       703         85 Nov     11     1479     10178         564       550        60            25     2304     12025       620       518       118            30     1238       8291        317       482        58 Dec       1      2611     11891          697      500       109              2     2833     12356        669      498        65              3     2918     12660        776       570        94              4     2718     12142         674       509      160              8     2913     11714         796       404      183 Summary:  Another terrible day, and it will get worse. But one piece