{"id":160614,"date":"2023-03-19T10:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-fifth-force-is-there-another-fundamental-force-of-nature"},"modified":"2023-03-19T10:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T15:23:13","slug":"the-fifth-force-is-there-another-fundamental-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/the-fifth-force-is-there-another-fundamental-force-of-nature","title":{"rendered":"The fifth force: Is there another fundamental force of nature?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In recent years, a group of Hungarian researchers have made headlines with a bold claim. They say they\u2019ve discovered a new particle \u2014 dubbed X17 \u2014 that requires the existence of a fifth force of nature.<\/p>\n

The researchers weren\u2019t looking for the new particle, though. Instead, it popped up as an anomaly in their detector back in 2015 while they were searching for signs of dark matter. The oddity didn\u2019t draw much attention at first. But eventually, a group of prominent particle physicists working at the University of California, Irvine, took a closer look and suggested that the Hungarians had stumbled onto a new type of particle<\/a> \u2014 one that implies an entirely new force of nature.<\/p>\n

Then, in late 2019, the Hungarian find hit the mainstream \u2014 including a story featured prominently on CNN<\/a> \u2014 when they released new results<\/a> suggesting that their signal hadn\u2019t gone away. The anomaly persisted even after they changed the parameters of their experiment. They\u2019ve now seen it pop up in the same way hundreds of times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent years, a group of Hungarian researchers have made headlines with a bold claim. They say they\u2019ve discovered a new particle \u2014 dubbed X17 \u2014 that requires the existence of a fifth force of nature. The researchers weren\u2019t looking for the new particle, though. Instead, it popped up as an anomaly in their detector [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160614","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}