{"id":28961,"date":"2016-08-15T13:48:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:36","slug":"physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists confirm possible discovery of fifth force of nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-confirm-possible-discovery-of-fifth-force-of-nature.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to a paper published in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> by theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf true, it\u2019s revolutionary,\u201d said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics &amp; astronomy. \u201cFor decades, we\u2019ve known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The UCI researchers came upon a mid-2015 study by experimental nuclear physicists at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences who were searching for \u201cdark photons,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">particles<\/a> that would signify unseen dark matter, which physicists say makes up about 85 percent of the universe\u2019s mass. The Hungarians\u2019 work uncovered a radioactive decay anomaly that points to the existence of a light particle just 30 times heavier than an electron.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-physicists-discovery-nature.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-physicists-discovery-nature.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters by theoretical physicists at the University of California, Irvine. \u201cIf true, it\u2019s revolutionary,\u201d said Jonathan Feng, professor of physics &amp; astronomy. \u201cFor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28961","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\/28961","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=28961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66564,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28961\/revisions\/66564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}