{"id":27977,"date":"2016-07-18T12:47:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-fifth-force-fact-or-fiction"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:33:22","slug":"a-fifth-force-fact-or-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-fifth-force-fact-or-fiction","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth Force: Fact or Fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-fifth-force-fact-or-fiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Science and the internet have an uneasy relationship: Science tends to move forward through a careful and tedious evaluation of data and theory, and the process can take years to complete. In contrast, the internet community generally has the attention span of Dory, the absent-minded fish of \u201cFinding Nemo\u201d(and now \u201cFinding Dory\u201d) \u2014 a meme here, a celebrity picture there \u2014 oh, look \u2026 a funny cat video.<\/p>\n<p>Thus people who are interested in serious science should be extremely cautious when they read an online story that purports to be a paradigm-shifting scientific discovery. A recent example is one suggesting that a new force of nature might have been discovered. If true, that would mean that we have to rewrite the textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>As a physicist, I\u2019d like to shed a disciplined scientific light on the claim.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55283-has-a-fifth-force-been-discovered.html\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/55283-has-a-fifth-force-been-discovered.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and the internet have an uneasy relationship: Science tends to move forward through a careful and tedious evaluation of data and theory, and the process can take years to complete. In contrast, the internet community generally has the attention span of Dory, the absent-minded fish of \u201cFinding Nemo\u201d(and now \u201cFinding Dory\u201d) \u2014 a meme [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977","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=27977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66876,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27977\/revisions\/66876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}