Scientists have found that muons oscillate faster than expected, which may be caused by an unknown natural force (energy). (Glukicov/Wikipedia)
Although we can’t feel it, we actually live with the interaction of matter and energy every day, and physicists have simply categorized them into four basic forces: gravity, electromagnetic force, strong force and weak force. However, some physicists recently said that they have discovered that there may be a fifth form of force (energy) in the universe that humans have not yet discovered, a discovery that could overturn the existing “Standard Model” of the scientific community, the laws of physics.
In fact, four fundamental forces determine the interaction of all objects and particles in nature. Gravity, for example, causes objects to fall to the ground, and heavy objects behave as if they were stuck to the floor.
An experiment at the prestigious Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, USA, has confirmed the results of an experiment that suggests there may be a “fifth energy” in the universe.
On April 7, Fermilab reported the latest measurements in a webcast published in the Physical Review Letters.
More than 200 physicists from 35 institutions in seven countries participated in the study. Chris Polly, a physicist at the lab, described the discovery as the quantum physics equivalent of the “Mars landing moment! This is our Mars rover landing moment.
Susan Gardner, a physicist at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, said the results are “very encouraging” for those hoping to discover other particles.
Physicists say certain forms of matter and energy are critical to the nature and evolution of the universe, which science does not yet know. They say the new discovery could eventually lead to a more dramatic breakthrough than the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, which scientists found filled other particles with mass.
If the results of the experiment hold, they could eventually force major changes in theoretical physics and reveal the existence of entirely new elementary particles.
Prof Mark Lancaster, the British leader of the experiment, told the BBC that they “found that the interaction between muons is not consistent with the ‘Standard Model’*,” which is a model for the interaction of muons. “The “Standard Model” is a widely accepted theory that explains how the building blocks of the universe behave.
Muon g-2 is a particle physics experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in which scientists shot muons, subatomic particles, at high speeds into a strong magnetic field near absolute zero and found that the muons did not behave exactly as predicted by the precise theory.
The scientists found that the muon oscillated faster than expected, which may be caused by an unknown natural force (energy).
No one knows what this potentially new energy is, except that it affects the oscillation speed of the particles.
According to the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the results “provide strong evidence for the existence of undiscovered sub-atomic particles, or particles smaller than atoms, or The results “provide strong evidence for the existence of undiscovered subatomic particles or nascent energies,” said STFC.
“Obviously, this is very exciting because it potentially points to new laws of physics, new particles or called new energies unknown to mankind.” Professor Lancaster said.
Professor Ben Allanach of Cambridge University, who was not involved in the latest work, said his intuition tells him the conclusion “will be true.
Professor Allanach has spent his entire career searching for forces and particles beyond what is known to man, and he has excitedly given various names to possible “fifth energies” in his theoretical models, including the “flavour force “, “the third family of superpressures” and “B minus L2”, named after a mathematical problem.
The “fifth fundamental energy” may help explain some of the major phenomena in the universe that have puzzled scientists in recent decades.
For example, they have observed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating because of a mysterious substance known as dark energy, which some researchers have previously suggested could be evidence of a “fifth energy” in the universe.
*Editor’s note: The Standard Model is a theory that describes the three basic interactions of strong, weak and electromagnetic interactions and the fundamental particles that make up all matter, and belongs to the realm of quantum field theory, and is compatible with quantum mechanics and special relativity. So far, gravity, dark matter and many other phenomena have been ignored outside the Standard Model, and the relevant experimental results are still difficult to be explained by the Standard Model.
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