Has The Mysterious Fifth Force Of Nature Finally Been Discovered?

MessageToEagle.com – The existence of the mysterious fifth force of nature has fascinated physicists for a long time. Despite many attempts, the fundamental fifth force has never been discovered yet.

Are we looking in the wrong places, does it simply not exist or have we already found it but cannot verify its existence?

A group of physicists in Hungary have just announced think they might have found evidence of a mysterious fifth force of nature. If the finding can be verified, it would mean we’d need to rethink our understanding of how the Universe actually works.

According to our current understanding of physics there are four fundamental forces. Gravity holds the planets and galaxies together, and the electromagnetic force holds us and our molecules together. At the smallest level are the two other forces: the strong nuclear force is the glue for atomic nuclei, and the weak nuclear force helps some atoms go through radioactive decay. These forces seemed to explain the physics we can observe, more or less.

These four forces are a fundamental part of the standard model of physics, which explain all the behavior and particles we see in the Universe.

Last year, Attila Krasznahorkay and his group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’s Institute for Nuclear Research in Debrecen, Hungary published a paper announcing their discovery of a mysterious fifth force, but for some reason their significant discovery went unnoticed.

The Hungarian group found their new force while looking for a “dark photon,” light that only impacts dark matter. They shot protons at lithium-7 samples creating beryllium-8 nuclei, which, as it decayed, emitted pairs of electrons and positrons. Surprisingly, as they monitored the emitted pairs, instead of a consistent drop-off, there was a slight bump, which the researchers attributed to the creation of an unknown particle with a mass of approximately 17 MeV.

For one year nothing happened, until now when a group of theoretical physicists led by Jonathan Feng at the University of California, Irvine, looked closer a the Hungarian group’s results, and found this new force didn’t seem to break any existing laws of physics.

See also:

Possible “Fifth Force Of Nature” – Physicist ‘s Breakthrough In The Field Of Particle Physics!

Unexplained Fifth Force Could Alter Gravity Throughout The Universe

Did “Dark Matter” Or A Star Called Nemesis Kill The Dinosaurs?

Scientists are aware of that a new force would not be completely unexpected. The evidence for dark matter stems primarily from observations of the velocities of galaxies within galaxy clusters.

Researchers know about its existence and that there is no empty space in the universe.

What we can see and touch only makes up about a fifth of the universe’s mass, while dark matter fills out the rest. Dark matter can feel gravity but not electromagnetism, which is why we can’t see or touch it, since our sight, touch, and most of our science experiments detect stuff using the electromagnetic force. Many scientists think there might be a particle out there called a ‘dark photon’, which could carry a new force that would explain dark matter – that invisible substance that makes up more than 80 percent of the Universe’s mass.

This is not the first time researchers have claimed to detect a fifth force.

Whether the Hungarian team really has discovered the fifth force of nature is too early to say. International researchers are now conducting follow-up tests to verify the Hungarian discovery, and we can expect results within around a year.

MessageToEagle.com