{"id":137586,"date":"2022-04-01T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/groundbreaking-technique-yields-important-new-details-on-possible-fifth-force"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:02:22","slug":"groundbreaking-technique-yields-important-new-details-on-possible-fifth-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/groundbreaking-technique-yields-important-new-details-on-possible-fifth-force","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking technique yields important new details on possible \u2018fifth force\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-technique-yields-important-new-details-on-possible-fifth-force.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A group of researchers have used a groundbreaking new technique to reveal previously unrecognized properties of technologically crucial silicon crystals and uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature.<\/p>\n<p>The research was an international collaboration conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dmitry Pushin, a member of the University of Waterloo\u2019s Institute for Quantum Computing and a faculty member in Waterloo\u2019s Department of Physics and Astronomy, was the only Canadian researcher involved in the study. Pushin was interested in producing high-quality quantum sensors out of perfect crystals.<\/p>\n<p>By aiming subatomic particles known as neutrons at silicon crystals and monitoring the outcome with exquisite sensitivity, researchers were able to obtain three extraordinary results: the first measurement of a key neutron property in 20 years using a unique method; the highest-precision measurements of the effects of heat-related vibrations in a silicon crystal; and limits on the strength of a possible \u201cfifth force\u201d beyond standard physics theories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature. A group of researchers have used a groundbreaking new technique to reveal previously unrecognized properties of technologically crucial silicon crystals and uncovered new information about an important subatomic particle and a long-theorized fifth force of nature. The research was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137586","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}