{"id":26071,"date":"2016-05-26T14:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/physicists-think-they-might-have-just-detected-a-fifth-force-of-nature"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:58:40","slug":"physicists-think-they-might-have-just-detected-a-fifth-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/physicists-think-they-might-have-just-detected-a-fifth-force-of-nature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists think they might have just detected a fifth force of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-think-they-might-have-just-detected-a-fifth-force-of-nature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physics can be pretty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/evidence-of-a-new-particle-that-could-break-the-standard-model-of-physics-is-mounting\">intense at times<\/a>, but one of the most straightforward aspects is that everything in the Universe is controlled by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-you-can-explain-the-entire-universe-in-less-than-4-minutes\">just four fundamental forces<\/a>: gravity, electromagnetic, and strong and weak nuclear forces.<\/p>\n<p>But now physicists in Hungary think they might have found evidence of a mysterious fifth force of nature. And, if verified, it would mean we\u2019d need to rethink our understanding of how the Universe actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Before we get into that, let\u2019s go back to those four forces for a second, because they\u2019re pretty important. They\u2019re a fundamental part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/evidence-of-a-new-particle-that-could-break-the-standard-model-of-physics-is-mounting\">standard model of physics<\/a>, which explain all the behaviour and particles we see in the Universe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-think-they-might-have-just-detected-a-fifth-force-of-nature\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-think-they-might-have...-of-nature<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physics can be pretty intense at times, but one of the most straightforward aspects is that everything in the Universe is controlled by just four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetic, and strong and weak nuclear forces. But now physicists in Hungary think they might have found evidence of a mysterious fifth force of nature. And, if [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67418,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26071\/revisions\/67418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}