{"id":112984,"date":"2020-09-14T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-who-disproved-5th-force-win-3-million-breakthrough-prize"},"modified":"2020-09-14T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T18:22:24","slug":"physicists-who-disproved-5th-force-win-3-million-breakthrough-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-who-disproved-5th-force-win-3-million-breakthrough-prize","title":{"rendered":"Physicists who disproved \u20185th force\u2019 win $3 million \u2018Breakthrough\u2019 prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-who-disproved-5th-force-win-3-million-breakthrough-prize2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three physicists won a $3 million Breakthrough prize for proving there is no fifth force (that we know of). And it all started with a series of table-top experiments using cheap equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach and Blayne Heckel together lead the \u201cE\u00f6t-Wash Group,\u201d which is devoted to precise tests of physical laws. They take their name from the early-1900s physicist Lor\u00e1nd E\u00f6tv\u00f6s and the University of Washington, where they work. These E\u00f6t-Wash researchers got their start in the mid-1980s, using a device known as a \u201ctorsion balance\u201d to disprove claims of an undiscovered fifth force in physics. Since then, they\u2019ve used more elaborate versions of the same device to test the true strength of gravity, detect the tug of dark matter in the Milky Way and search for theoretical physical effects like extra dimensions and \u201caxion wind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three physicists won a $3 million Breakthrough prize for proving there is no fifth force (that we know of). And it all started with a series of table-top experiments using cheap equipment. Eric Adelberger, Jens Gundlach and Blayne Heckel together lead the \u201cE\u00f6t-Wash Group,\u201d which is devoted to precise tests of physical laws. They take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112984","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}