{"id":11301,"date":"2021-04-05T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11301"},"modified":"2021-04-12T18:37:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:37:20","slug":"a-fifth-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/04\/05\/a-fifth-force\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fifth Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/56643677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from BBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"main-heading\">Muons: &#8216;Strong&#8217; evidence found for a new force of nature<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Pallab Ghosh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"g-2 experiment\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/8A6D\/production\/_117873453_1cbc9a72-3218-4dbf-8fac-67e2fd792291.jpg\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><br><em>IMAGE COPYRIGHTREIDAR HAHN \/ FERMILAB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at play in every moment of our lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the forces we experience every day can be reduced to just four categories: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, physicists say they have found possible signs of a fifth fundamental force of nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings come from research carried out at a laboratory near Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The four fundamental forces govern how all the objects and particles in the Universe interact with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, gravity makes objects fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they are glued to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK&#8217;s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) said the result &#8220;provides strong evidence for the existence of an undiscovered sub-atomic particle or new force&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/56643677\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at BBC<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BBC Muons: &#8216;Strong&#8217; evidence found for a new force of nature By Pallab Ghosh IMAGE COPYRIGHTREIDAR HAHN \/ FERMILAB From sticking a magnet on a fridge door to throwing a ball into a basketball hoop, the forces of physics are at play in every moment of our lives. All of the forces we experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}