Sentences with phrase «fifth force of»

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).
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.
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.
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.
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.

Not exact matches

It was powered by five Rocketdyne F - 1 engines arrayed in a quincunx (four units arranged in a square, and the fifth in the center), which provided it with 34,000 kN (7.6 million pounds - force) of thrust.
According to a 2014 survey by the NCTE and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, about one - fifth of all transgender adults are veterans, making transgender people approximately twice as likely as others to serve in the military, The Washington Post reported.
He claims that by demanding Uber use the «full extent» of its authority to get him to hand over the Waymo documents, Alsup is illegally forcing him to forfeit his Fifth Amendment rights.
... Early polls for the Aug. 28 primary show Arpaio grabbing between one - third and one - fifth of the electorate, behind the establishment - backed front - runner, Rep. Martha McSally, a former Air Force combat pilot, and ahead of another conservative insurgent, state Sen. Kelli Ward -LSB-.]
He served in Viet Nam as a patrol leader with the First Force Reconnaissance Company and was the Commanding Officer of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, Fifth Marines in Hue City during the Tet Offensive.
This was the fifth decision by this Administration to force the deportation of legal immigrants with... Continue reading»
The fifth trait follows from the above, for in all fantasy literature there is a keen recognition of forces of good and evil, a sense of right and wrong — but also a driving necessity to act on such recognition.
That faulty diagnosis [that Evangelical progressives are a Fifth Column of sorts in the Democratic Party] seems to be shared in recent speculation that the Stupak amendment — which went beyond the abortion neutrality called for by all the Christian progressives I'm aware of — was added to the House health - care bill as part of a long - standing plan by progressive religious forces.
A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.
Writing in the late fifth century, when many Greeks resented Athens» aggressive imperialism and credited Sparta with the lion's share of the victory, Herodotus protested that without the Athenian navy, the Persians would have outflanked and defeated Sparta's forces, despite their heroic resistance.
For a spell, Bellarmine seemed to build a tidal wave of momentum, poised to even the match and force a fifth set.
They were so brazen that on June 16, 1917, hundreds even rushed the field during the rainy fifth inning in hopes of forcing a postponement of the game before their losses tied to a 2 - 0 Red Sox deficit to the White Sox became official.
On Monday, the NFL announced that the Seahawks will be docked $ 400,000 and a fifth round pick in the 2017 draft, and forced to forfeit the first week of next year's organized team activities.
At least one PGA Tour player wondered if the choice to abort the opening round cheapened the status of the LPGA's fifth major, which got off to a rough start in 2013 when inclement weather forced that year's event to be similarly condensed to 54 holes:
Not to mention, the lack of resource facilities in neighborhoods like Meadowview and a use of force issue making Clark the fifth black person Sacramento police have killed since 2015.
The San Antonio Spurs were just seconds away from winning their fifth championship in franchise history before an improbable series of events helped the Miami Heat force overtime and eventually a decisive Game 7.
Ferrari duo Kimi Raikonnen and Sebastian Vettel finished third and fourth respectively while Force India's Sergio Perez was fifth ahead of Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenburg who finished 6th and 7th respectively.
His P6 increased his points tally to 38 while Force India was now up to 77, 17 ahead of Lotus in their battle for fifth in the Constructors» Championship.
Earlier this month, he was forced to deny his was keen to leave in January after being quoted as saying «I am just starting my fifth season at Everton, this will be one of my last».
Since joining the grid in 2008 following the takeover of Spyker F1, Force India have made progress in their eight seasons as they went from 10th in the debut season to fifth place this year.
With no game this weekend due to the acrimonious exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Nottingham Forest, this weekend represents a moment in time whereby Arsenal fans are forced to look on in bittnerness as the other top clubs in England waltz through to the fifth round, having been handed easy ties that will see them rotate players but having just got to a cup final, it feels a little weird.
Meanwhile Nico Hulkenberg's sixth place on Sunday handed Force India fifth in the Constructors» ahead of Lotus, a sterling result for the midfield team.
With no game this weekend due to the acrimonious exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Nottingham Forest, this weekend represents a moment in time whereby Arsenal fans are forced to look on in bittnerness as the other top clubs in England waltz through to the fifth round, having been handed easy ties -LSB-...]
It's been seven months since he was forced off in only his fifth game against Crystal Palace and the 23 - year - old was keen to enjoy the experience of being involved in competitive action again.
Running fourth and fifth, Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean seemed set for a bumper haul of points until disaster struck at their pit stops, with both cars being forced into retirement due to loose wheelnuts.
Vijay Mallya believes Force India can tackle the final five races of this season with optimism as they seek to retain fifth place in the championship...
Perhaps encouraged by an Arsenal team sheet showing six changes from the side which had drawn away to CSKA Moscow on Thursday, the Magpies started at a high tempo but soon found themselves forced back into their own half with Lacazette scuffing a fifth - minute shot wide after turning neatly on the edge of the box.
Such was the case when a dozen fourth and fifth graders posed a few hard - hitting questions to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who are all now part of President Barack Obama's new federal task force to combat childhood obesity.
A new recruit to West Midlands Police has become the fifth generation of his family to join the force.
Besides, with $ 450 million worldwide in just a few days (the fifth - biggest global debut behind Harry Potter 7.2, Jurassic World, The Force Awakens and The Fate of the Furious, but the third - biggest if you exclude China openings), it can afford to be a prototypical quick kill blockbuster.
«We are the world's fifth largest economy, with the best armed forces of any nation, more Nobel Prizes than any European country and more world - leading universities than any European country.
As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.
BY LAUREN KATE ROSENBLUM In 2011 the police forces of Stony Point and Haverstraw joined forces for the fifth year to educate young people through the North Rockland Youth Police Academy.
Today's report highlights the fall in the number of specialist road traffic police as a major problem - police forces are increasingly sidelining the work, with the result that numbers fell by up to two thirds between 1996 and 1998, and by a fifth from 1999 to 2004.
The fifth and sixth planets, both in the habitable zone, are more than half water — a volume so large that the water pressure alone could force much of it into a form of ice, Unterborn says.
A shape - shifting fifth fundamental force could neatly explain the mystery of dark energy — and some other puzzling astronomical observations
By adding a fifth dimension to space - time, it is possible to show that gravity and electromagnetism are two aspects of one and the same force
Fifth, the bomb used to split the asteroid would need to explode with the force of a hundred billion one - megaton bombs, millions of times the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever detonated.
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.»
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.
Using string theory, Harvard physicist Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, showed in 1999 that a fifth dimension could explain a vexing mystery: why gravity seems so much weaker than nature's other forces.
The stars show no sign of a hypothetical fifth force that would cause a deviation from the theory's predictions.
While the electromagnetic and nuclear forces are stuck inside a «brane» made of four dimensions, gravity leaks out into the fifth.
In 1919, he sent a paper to Einstein in which he argued that by adding a fifth dimension to space - time, it was possible to show that gravity and electromagnetism were two aspects of one and the same force.
Physicists stalk a delicate «fifth force» of nature, hidden within the interstices of the other four.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z