{"id":35549,"date":"2017-03-24T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T07:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/theoretical-physicists-suggest-theres-a-portal-linking-the-standard-model-to-dark-physics"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:07:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:07:57","slug":"theoretical-physicists-suggest-theres-a-portal-linking-the-standard-model-to-dark-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/theoretical-physicists-suggest-theres-a-portal-linking-the-standard-model-to-dark-physics","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical Physicists Suggest There\u2019s a Portal Linking the Standard Model to Dark Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theoretical-physicists-suggest-theres-a-portal-linking-the-standard-model-to-dark-physics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists have put forward a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there\u2019s a portal that bridges the gap between the standard model to dark matter and dark energy?<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that the reason we struggle to understand things such as dark matter and dark energy isn\u2019t because they don\u2019t exist \u2014 it\u2019s because we\u2019ve been oblivious to a portal through which regular particles and these \u2018dark particles\u2019 interact. And it\u2019s something that could be tested experimentally.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of portals in the Universe might sound pretty crazy, but let\u2019s be clear for a second: we\u2019re talking portals on the quantum, teeny-tiny scale here \u2014 nothing that you could drive a spacecraft through.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/theoretical-physicists-suggest-there-s-a-portal-linking-the-standard-model-to-dark-physics#.WNS-1WDXDI0.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/theoretical-physicists-suggest-t...0.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physicists have put forward a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there\u2019s a portal that bridges the gap between the standard model to dark matter and dark energy? The idea is that the reason we struggle to understand things such [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549","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=35549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58326,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35549\/revisions\/58326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}