The finding could solve the greatest physical mysteries.
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Source: TASR / NASA, ESA
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U.S. researchers at Fermilab say they have found evidence for the fifth basic physical force. They came across this while studying the properties of muons, which are particles smaller than atoms, which, according to physicists, are one of the basic building blocks of all matter in spacesays server BBC.
„We found that the interaction of muons does not correspond to the standard model. This is a very exciting discovery, because it may point to a future with new laws of physics, new particles, and a new force that we haven’t seen before,“Said British Professor Mark Lancaster.
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At present, physics only counts four basic forces, with gravity, electromagnetism and strong and weak nuclear force. However, scientists from the American laboratory Fermilab now claim that muons interact with each other not yet described.
New find yet cannot be declared a scientific discovery, as there is still a one in 40 thousand chance that this is a statistical error. For it to be a discovery, the chances of it being just a coincidence must be at least equal one in 3.5 million. „All my career I’ve been looking for forces and particles we don’t know yet, and this is it. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for and I won’t get much sleep now because I’m too upset,Said Professor Ben Allanach of Cambridge University.
A further series of measurements and investigations will now take place, and if the discovery of a new physical force were to be confirmed, it could lead to the resolution of some great physical mysteries, which include, for example, the clarification of the existence of the so – called dark energy. This is energy that, according to some theories, causes the rate of expansion of the universe to continue to accelerate instead of gradually decelerating.
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