experimental physics to offer an understanding of novelty as disruption. I call this the '750
GeV episode', an episode where two Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments, CMS and
ATLAS, each independently observed indications of a new resonance at approximately 750
GeV. With further data collection, the initial excess was determined to be a statistical
fluctuation. The approach taken, in the analysis of interviews conducted with physicists who …