A new scholarly paper has raised suspicions in boffinry circles as to whether last year’s breakthrough discovery by CERN was indeed the fabled, applecart-busting Higgs boson.

The report from the University of Southern Denmark suggests that while physicists working with data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) did discover a new particle, the data might not point to the fabled Higgs boson, but rather to a different particle that behaves similarly.

“The CERN data is generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations, we would also get this data from other particles,” said associate professor Mads Toudal Frandsen.