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Has a New, Fifth Force of Nature Been Found? - The "Protophobic X Boson"

Dryson

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http://www.space.com/33750-fifth-force-of-nature-dark-matter.html


There may be a fifth force of nature, a new study suggests.


"If true, it's revolutionary," study lead author Jonathan Feng, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement.

"For decades, we've known of four fundamental forces: gravitation, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces," Feng added. "If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe, with consequences for the unification of forces and dark matter."

It's also possible that the universe of "normal" matter and forces has a parallel "dark" sector, with its own matter and forces, Feng added.

The new paper has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. You can read a copy for free at the online preprint site ArXiv.org:http://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03591


So maybe the possibility of another Universe within the parallel "dark" sector would exist where species such as Species 8472 might be present.

Could this new particle possibly be what the center of a black hole is made of? Normal matter collapsing on itself to allow the communication between the two universes to be seen in the form of a black hole?
 
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