As always, more tests and other results are needed to turn physics upside down.
There are four forces in the universe that govern all activities from the smallest.
Physics says that in the Universe, there are four forces that govern all activities from the smallest (particle size) to the greatest (universal size), which are:
We still think that the natural order is at peace with these four forces. But long ago, when people began to understand more about nature, we suspected the existence of a fifth force (or any other “n” thing) . We need a bridging element to link classical physics with particle physics, two categories that can successfully explain everything that’s around us but don’t fit together.
The researchers believe they have found evidence that there is another fifth force in nature.
Researchers at the Atomki Institute for Nuclear Research in Hungary believe they have found evidence that there is another fifth force in nature. Attila Krasznahorkay and colleagues at Atomki first reported this study in 2015, after observing the light emitted by the decay of beryllium-8, an isotope with an unstable structure. .
We discovered beryllium-8 in the 1930s, when we built the first particle accelerator at Cambridge; The very existence of beryllium-8 and the way it decays has intrigued particle physicists. It has been involved in a series of studies involving fusion, when elements form inside a star.
In 2015, a team of Hungarian researchers discovered that when protons were fired at the isotope lithium-7 (to produce beryllium-8), the particle’s decay results were not as expected. Besides, a small “kick” occurs, that is, in some mysterious way, the electron and positron – when released into the air during the decay of the isotope – have shot out of each other forming an angle. exactly 140 degrees.
Many similar trials yielded this result, and a year later, another trial in the United States gave similar results.
NA64, physics’ fifth force experiment, is being carried out by scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
From this, the team surmised: at the moment the atom decayed, the excess energy contained in the atom’s components created a new particle but immediately decayed, leaving a pair of positrons and electrons.
Scientists named this mysterious particle X17 , due to its estimated mass of 17 megaelectronvolts. It carries an interaction force at a distance no larger than the width of an atom’s nucleus.
With the new study, Professor Krasznahorkay believes they have obtained similar measurements when studying the stable helium atom. There is a difference, is that the positron and electron pair explode the helium atom at an angle close to 115 degrees.
“This event closely resembles that observed in the beryllium-8 isotope experiment, and appears to be similar to how X17 appears to decay, ” the new study writes. If the existence of X17 is confirmed (and given its own name), physics will have to rotate the four fundamental forces we already know, how to match the appearance of a fifth force.
” We await further results regarding X17 in the coming years ,” the team concludes in a report that has not been validated by the scientific community.