{"id":138078,"date":"2022-04-13T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/particle-physics-could-be-rewritten-after-shock-w-boson-measurement"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T20:02:31","slug":"particle-physics-could-be-rewritten-after-shock-w-boson-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/particle-physics-could-be-rewritten-after-shock-w-boson-measurement","title":{"rendered":"Particle physics could be rewritten after shock W boson measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/particle-physics-could-be-rewritten-after-shock-w-boson-measurement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson appears to defy the standard model of particle physics, our current understanding of how the basic building blocks of the universe interact. The result, which was a decade in the making, will be heavily scrutinised, but if it holds true, it could lead to entirely new theories of physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be the biggest discovery since, well, since the start of the standard model 60 years ago,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=w0usHq0AAAAJ&hl=en\">Martijn Mulders<\/a> at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, who has written a commentary on the result for the journal <em><i>Science<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The standard model describes three distinct forces: electromagnetism, the strong force and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/weak-nuclear-force\/\">weak force<\/a>. Particles called bosons serve as mediators for these forces between particles of matter. The weak force, which is responsible for radioactive decay, uses the W boson as one of its messengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new measurement of a fundamental particle called the W boson appears to defy the standard model of particle physics, our current understanding of how the basic building blocks of the universe interact. The result, which was a decade in the making, will be heavily scrutinised, but if it holds true, it could lead to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138078","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}