{"id":98859,"date":"2019-11-20T18:24:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/physicists-claim-theyve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature"},"modified":"2019-11-20T18:24:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:24:30","slug":"physicists-claim-theyve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/physicists-claim-theyve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Claim They\u2019ve Found Even More Evidence of a New Force of Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-claim-theyve-found-even-more-evidence-of-a-new-force-of-nature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything in our Universe is held together or pushed apart by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and two nuclear interactions. Physicists now think they\u2019ve spotted the actions of a fifth physical force emerging from a helium atom.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time researchers claim to have caught a glimpse of it, either. A few years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-think-they-might-have-just-detected-a-fifth-force-of-nature\">they saw it in the decay of an isotope of beryllium<\/a>. Now the same team has seen a second example of the mysterious force at play \u2014 and the particle they think is carrying it, which they\u2019re calling X17.<\/p>\n<p>If the discovery is confirmed, not only could learning more about X17 let us better understand the forces that govern our Universe, it could also help scientists solve the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/only-one-experiment-has-detected-dark-matter-now-the-plot-has-thickened\">dark matter problem<\/a> once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything in our Universe is held together or pushed apart by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and two nuclear interactions. Physicists now think they\u2019ve spotted the actions of a fifth physical force emerging from a helium atom. It\u2019s not the first time researchers claim to have caught a glimpse of it, either. A few years [\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-98859","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\/98859","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=98859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}