{"id":149361,"date":"2022-11-02T19:23:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/testing-a-fundamental-force-new-study-advances-our-understanding-of-the-universe"},"modified":"2022-11-02T19:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:23:13","slug":"testing-a-fundamental-force-new-study-advances-our-understanding-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/testing-a-fundamental-force-new-study-advances-our-understanding-of-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Testing a fundamental force: New study advances our understanding of the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/testing-a-fundamental-force-new-study-advances-our-understanding-of-the-universe2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research from a team of physicists at the University of New Hampshire is advancing the understanding of how protons, which comprise 95% of the mass of the visible universe, interact with each other. The results provide a benchmark for testing the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces in nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot still unanswered about both of those things, the proton and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/strong+force\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">strong force<\/a>,\u201d said David Ruth, Ph.D. candidate in physics and lead author. \u201cThis brings us a little bit closer to that understanding. It\u2019s a necessary piece of two very fundamental things in the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The strong force governs how what\u2019s internal to the atom\u2019s nucleus\u2014neutrons, protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up\u2014bind together. It is the least understood of the four <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fundamental+forces\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fundamental forces<\/a> of nature, which include gravity, electromagnetism and the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/weak+force\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">weak force<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research from a team of physicists at the University of New Hampshire is advancing the understanding of how protons, which comprise 95% of the mass of the visible universe, interact with each other. The results provide a benchmark for testing the strong force, one of the four fundamental forces in nature. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot still [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149361","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}