{"id":216022,"date":"2025-06-16T14:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-fifth-force-of-nature-may-have-been-discovered-inside-atoms"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:04:19","slug":"a-fifth-force-of-nature-may-have-been-discovered-inside-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/a-fifth-force-of-nature-may-have-been-discovered-inside-atoms","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth Force of Nature May Have Been Discovered Inside Atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fifth-force-of-nature-may-have-been-discovered-inside-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every action in physics is governed by some kind of push or pull. As far as we know, these all fall into one of just <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundamental_interaction\">four categories<\/a>; electromagnetism, gravity, and two kinds of nuclear force.<\/p>\n<p>Yet there could well be forces hidden deep within the tiny storms of particle dynamics that have been simply too subtle to easily detect.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists from Germany, Switzerland, and Australia have now placed new restrictions on where one example of a \u2018fifth\u2019 force may be hiding in the hearts of atoms, exchanging whispers between electrons and neutrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every action in physics is governed by some kind of push or pull. As far as we know, these all fall into one of just four categories; electromagnetism, gravity, and two kinds of nuclear force. Yet there could well be forces hidden deep within the tiny storms of particle dynamics that have been simply too [\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-216022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216022","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=216022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}