{"id":95033,"date":"2019-08-20T16:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-new-experiment-narrows-potential-properties-of-dark-energy-particle"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:42:26","slug":"a-new-experiment-narrows-potential-properties-of-dark-energy-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-new-experiment-narrows-potential-properties-of-dark-energy-particle","title":{"rendered":"A New Experiment Narrows Potential Properties of Dark Energy Particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-experiment-narrows-potential-properties-of-dark-energy-particle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An experiment in the United Kingdom has failed to find evidence of a particle meant to explain most of the universe\u2019s mass. But the search isn\u2019t over.<\/p>\n<p>When cosmologists observe the way the universe expands, they find that present-day theories of matter can\u2019t explain most of the universe\u2019s energy. They call the unknown energy \u201cdark energy,\u201d and theorists have tried to explain it by proposing undiscovered particles and corresponding fields. Experiments have failed to find evidence of such particles, but in physics, that\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment in the United Kingdom has failed to find evidence of a particle meant to explain most of the universe\u2019s mass. But the search isn\u2019t over. When cosmologists observe the way the universe expands, they find that present-day theories of matter can\u2019t explain most of the universe\u2019s energy. They call the unknown energy \u201cdark [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95033","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\/95033","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}