Sentences with phrase «fifth force»

Notably, studies on the mysterious dark matter have recently revealed a potential fifth force of nature.

The stars show no sign of a hypothetical fifth force that would cause a deviation from the theory's predictions.

Meanwhile, for fifth force advocates, voids are also scientifically appealing.

All of these properties depend on the strength of the fundamental forces at work, whether they include gravity, dark energy or a phantasmic fifth force.

After spending months translating the nuclear physics finding into the language of particle physics and ensuring that no particle physics experiments contradicted it, the Irvine team determined that the beryllium - 8 anomaly is «beautifully» explained by the presence of a previously unknown «vector boson» — a type of particle that would wield a little - felt fifth force of nature.

A UCLA - led team has discovered a new way of probing the hypothetical fifth force of nature using two decades of observations at W. M. Keck Observatory, the world's most scientifically productive ground - based telescopes.

W. M. Keck Observatory Data Leads To First Of Its Kind Test of Einstein's Theory of General RelativityA UCLA - led team has discovered a new way of probing the hypothetical fifth force of nature... Read more»

(The Guardian) • Has a Hungarian Physics Lab Found a Fifth Force of Nature?

Pastoral growth counseling moves beyond the third and fourth forces in counseling and therapy to the «fifth force» — by which I mean insights and methods of spiritual counseling and growth.

Far more delicate than the tug on a spider's web: If a fifth force is out there, its impact on our world must be nearly imperceptible.

Fischbach is the epitome of the curious soul, constantly poking around at the edges of known physics in search of something that other people overlooked: a fifth force of nature, for instance, or a flaw in Einstein's theory of relativity.

«How empty a void is, is deeply relative to how active the fifth force may be.»

And Yan - Chuan Cai of the University of Edinburgh waxes similar about the fifth force he's hunting: «Cosmic voids are underdense environments where the fifth force is expected to be more active,» he says, so they «are perhaps better laboratories for testing modified gravity.»

Voids, mostly free of matter, would then be the prime places to see the fifth force without such chameleonic camouflage.

«The fifth force may behave differently in different circumstances,» explains Cai.

A theoretical «screening» mechanism, known as a chameleon field, that suppresses the fifth force in the presence of matter.

This modification, some scientists wager, might even be due to a mystical - sounding «fifth force» of nature, joining gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces.

As theories go, dark energy — for all its mystery — is currently the best bet, with chameleon fields and a fifth force being the long shots.

A fifth force would operate in addition to the four fundamental forces known to physicists: gravity, which general relativity describes; electromagnetism; the strong nuclear force; and the weak nuclear force.

New observations of the distribution of dark matter in a distant cluster of galaxies may even force scientists to propose a fifth force of nature — or to rewrite the basics of Newtonian gravity.

Physicists stalk a delicate «fifth force» of nature, hidden within the interstices of the other four.

And remember the Fifth Force?

A book entitled Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force, by Allan Franklin [American Institute of Physics, 1993], makes interesting reading about the types of issues that bear on the quality and repeatability of experiment, as well as the interpretation of data.

The fifth force would be a way to «read» the subatomic particles there — and might help scientists understand the discrepancy.

Historically, measurements of our solar system's gravity created by our sun have been used to try and detect the fifth force, but that has proven difficult because its gravitational field is relatively weak.

For decades, there have been theories that a fifth force ties gravity to the others, but no one has been able to prove it thus far.

Their stellar path, driven by gravity created from the supermassive black hole, could give clues to the fifth force.

This is the first time the fifth force theory has been tested in a strong gravitational field such as the one created by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

If such a force, propagated by hypothetical chameleon particles, is detected, it would be an example of a fifth force — beyond the strong and weak nuclear forces, and the gravitational and electromagnetic forces — in the universe.

If these particles exist, then a fifth force of nature (tentatively called the technicolor force in the paper) must exist in order to bind the techni - quarks together to form those particles, which would mean throwing the Standard Model out the window.

They parsed the experimental results and theorized that the new particle, if it exists, in turn implies the existence of a fifth force of nature (the four known forces being gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces).