{"id":120854,"date":"2021-03-24T15:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-might-have-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-kind-of-physics"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:22:16","slug":"scientists-might-have-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-kind-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/scientists-might-have-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-kind-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Might Have Just Stumbled Upon a New Kind of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-might-have-just-stumbled-upon-a-new-kind-of-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have recorded some <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/976688\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/indico.cern.ch\/event\/976688\/\">highly unusual data<\/a> that could point to an entirely new <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a29861192\/fifth-force-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a29861192\/fifth-force-nature\/\">force of nature<\/a>, which would mean a whole new area of physics. The secret lies in an elusive, unstable particle called a B meson, which isn\u2019t biodegrading according to plan.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) call B mesons \u201ctantalizing tensions,\u201d since the particles break apart into different amounts of electrons and muons than the standard model of physics predicts they should.<\/p>\n<p>B mesons are paired quarks that move together and rapidly decay. While scientists have noticed several previous anomalies in B mesons, this latest observation in decay mode is an even bigger deal. As the B mesons decay in the LHC, there are more electrons and fewer muons than there should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have recorded some highly unusual data that could point to an entirely new force of nature, which would mean a whole new area of physics. The secret lies in an elusive, unstable particle called a B meson, which isn\u2019t biodegrading according to plan. The scientists at the European [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120854","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=120854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}