{"id":122475,"date":"2021-05-10T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/are-we-on-the-brink-of-a-new-age-of-scientific-discovery"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:23:01","slug":"are-we-on-the-brink-of-a-new-age-of-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/are-we-on-the-brink-of-a-new-age-of-scientific-discovery","title":{"rendered":"Are We on the Brink of a New Age of Scientific Discovery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZjnK5exNhZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility used for research in nuclear and high-energy physics, scientists experimenting with a subatomic particle called a muon encountered something unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>To explain the fundamental physical forces at work in the universe and to predict the results of high-energy particle experiments like those conducted at Brookhaven, Fermilab in Illinois, and at CERN \u2019s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, physicists rely on the decades-old theory called the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/science-made-simple-what-is-the-standard-model-of-particle-physics\/\">Standard Model<\/a>, which should explain the precise behavior of muons when they are fired through an intense magnetic field created in a superconducting magnetic storage ring. When the muon in the Brookhaven experiment reacted in a way that differed from their predictions, researchers realized they were on the brink of a discovery that could change science\u2019s understanding of how the universe works.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, after a decades-long effort that involved building more powerful sensors and improving researchers\u2019 capacity to process 120 terabytes of data (the equivalent of 16 million digital photographs every week), a team of scientists at Fermilab announced the first results of an experiment called <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/evidence-of-exciting-new-physics-from-u-s-department-of-energys-muon-g-2-experiment-today-is-an-extraordinary-day\/\">Muon g-2<\/a> that suggests the Brookhaven find was no fluke and that science is on the brink of an unprecedented discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, a facility used for research in nuclear and high-energy physics, scientists experimenting with a subatomic particle called a muon encountered something unexpected. To explain the fundamental physical forces at work in the universe and to predict the results of high-energy particle experiments like those [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122475","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=122475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}