{"id":106216,"date":"2020-04-29T07:27:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-tests-suggest-a-fundamental-constant-of-physics-isnt-the-same-across-the-universe"},"modified":"2020-04-29T07:27:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:27:40","slug":"new-tests-suggest-a-fundamental-constant-of-physics-isnt-the-same-across-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/new-tests-suggest-a-fundamental-constant-of-physics-isnt-the-same-across-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"New Tests Suggest a Fundamental Constant of Physics Isn\u2019t The Same Across The Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tests-suggest-a-fundamental-constant-of-physics-isnt-the-same-across-the-universe3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found evidence that a fundamental physical constant used to measure electromagnetism between charged particles can in fact be rather <em>in <\/em>constant, according to measurements taken from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quasar\">quasar<\/a> some 13 billion light-years away.<\/p>\n<p>Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces that knit everything in our Universe together, alongside gravity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/proton-weak-force-measurement-experiment-uses-parity-violation\">weak nuclear force<\/a>, and strong nuclear force. The strength of electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles is calculated with the help of what\u2019s known as the fine-structure constant.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new readings \u2013 taken together with other readings from separate studies \u2013 point to tiny variations in this constant, which could have huge implications for how we understand everything around us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found evidence that a fundamental physical constant used to measure electromagnetism between charged particles can in fact be rather in constant, according to measurements taken from a quasar some 13 billion light-years away. Electromagnetism is one of the four fundamental forces that knit everything in our Universe together, alongside gravity, weak nuclear force, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}