Fifth Fundamental Force of Nature?

[pErvinalia]

Mystery abounds. I haven't fact checked this, but it was posted by a mate of mine who is an anal fact checker. Therefore I declare it REAL! The video is via facebook so that Scot can tell us that he won't be watching it.

https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNatureP ... iBFILjiLY4

[Rum]

Interesting.

I'm surprised it wasn't discovered in the Netherlands though.

[pErvinalia]

Physics just keeps knocking it out of the park, doesn't it? Exciting time to be alive.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Nice video; thank you, pErvinalia. It was just posted this month, but other sources had the story almost a year ago.

'Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found?'

There may be a fifth force of nature, a new study suggests.

"If true, it's revolutionary," study lead author Jonathan Feng, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement.

"For decades, we've known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces," Feng added. "If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter."

Feng and his colleagues analyzed data gathered recently by experimental nuclear physicists at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, who were trying to find "dark photons" — hypothetical indicators of mysterious dark matter. Dark matter is thought to make up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but it neither absorbs nor emits light, so it's impossible to detect directly. (Scientists have inferred its existence from its gravitational effects on "normal" matter.)
The Hungarians detected tantalizing evidence of a previously unknown particle just 30 times heavier than an electron — a result they published early this year.

[Brian Peacock]

The fifth force of nature is #SPACEFORCE!!

[pErvinalia]

[pErvinalia]

Nice video; thank you, pErvinalia. It was just posted this month, but other sources had the story almost a year ago.

I had a feeling I'd heard of it before. I may have even posted about it here too..