No amount of alteration removes the original copyright, it remains a "derivative work". (Check your local legal jurisdiction, of course.)
Altering it can give you your own copyright in the new work, but this is in addition to not instead of the original copyright.
Surely one significant problem in the study (this being Slashdot, I of course haven't read it myself) is the premise that only professional particle physicists can understand the subject matter well enough to be an expert witness? I'd bet there are a good number of (non-particle physicists) here who understand the theory well enough.
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No amount of alteration removes the original copyright, it remains a "derivative work". (Check your local legal jurisdiction, of course.) Altering it can give you your own copyright in the new work, but this is in addition to not instead of the original copyright.
Official data is graphed here: https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/eb...
Surely one significant problem in the study (this being Slashdot, I of course haven't read it myself) is the premise that only professional particle physicists can understand the subject matter well enough to be an expert witness? I'd bet there are a good number of (non-particle physicists) here who understand the theory well enough.