{"id":99067,"date":"2019-11-27T01:42:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T09:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-fifth-fundamental-force-could-really-exist-but-we-havent-found-it-yet"},"modified":"2019-11-27T01:42:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T09:42:32","slug":"a-fifth-fundamental-force-could-really-exist-but-we-havent-found-it-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-fifth-fundamental-force-could-really-exist-but-we-havent-found-it-yet","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth Fundamental Force Could Really Exist, But We Haven\u2019t Found It Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DW01m5k_P84?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The universe is governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. These forces drive the motion and behavior of everything we see around us. At least that\u2019s what we think. But over the past several years there\u2019s been increasing evidence of a fifth fundamental force. New research hasn\u2019t discovered this fifth force, but it does show that we still don\u2019t fully understand these cosmic forces.<\/p>\n<p>The fundamental forces are a part of the standard model of particle physics. This model describes all the various quantum particles we observe, such as electrons, protons, antimatter, and such. Quarks, neutrinos and the Higgs boson are all part of the model.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u201cforce\u201d in the model is a bit of a misnomer. In the standard model, each force is the result of a type of carrier boson. Photons are the carrier boson for electromagnetism. Gluons are the carrier bosons for the strong, and bosons known as W and Z are for the weak. Gravity isn\u2019t technically part of the standard model, but it\u2019s assumed that quantum gravity has a boson known as the graviton. We still don\u2019t fully understand quantum gravity, but one idea is that gravity can be united with the standard model to produce a grand unified theory (GUT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. These forces drive the motion and behavior of everything we see around us. At least that\u2019s what we think. But over the past several years there\u2019s been increasing evidence of a fifth fundamental force. New research hasn\u2019t discovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99067","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}