{"id":228397,"date":"2026-01-05T21:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-new-theory-says-hidden-dimensions-may-create-mass-that-would-rewrite-particle-physics"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:13:13","slug":"a-new-theory-says-hidden-dimensions-may-create-mass-that-would-rewrite-particle-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-new-theory-says-hidden-dimensions-may-create-mass-that-would-rewrite-particle-physics","title":{"rendered":"A New Theory Says Hidden Dimensions May Create Mass. That Would Rewrite Particle Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-theory-says-hidden-dimensions-may-create-mass-that-would-rewrite-particle-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This theoretical explanation could also help explain some of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion of the universe. The team explains the possible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a69717180\/time-reflections-are-real-scientists-confirm\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">existence<\/a> of a particle known as the \u201ctorstone,\u201d which would be linked to torsion that could be detected in future experience\u2014if this theory proves out.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that\u2019s a pretty big if. With the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a22212\/higgs-boson-gravity-weak\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Higgs boson<\/a> in 2012, the idea of a Higgs scalar field is a strong theory in the standard model. And as with every incredible theoretical idea, this new proposal requires equally incredible evidence. Luckily, scientists are developing ever more-sensitive detectors for probing these very questions. But until scientists can glimpse some semblance of a \u201ctorstone,\u201d or other piece pointing to the complicated interaction between higher-dimensional space time and mass, this idea will remain just that\u2014an idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This theoretical explanation could also help explain some of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion of the universe. The team explains the possible existence of a particle known as the \u201ctorstone,\u201d which would be linked to torsion that could be detected in future experience\u2014if this theory proves out. Of course, that\u2019s a pretty big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228397","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=228397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}