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If there’s one thing the mainstream media loves, it’s scientific discoveries that can be twisted just right so they become clickbait. Like when CNN wrote that Hungarian scientists may have found a “fifth force of nature.”
And...when they said that this mysterious, unseen fifth force — cue Star Wars reference — was photophobic and afraid of light. Hold up. For one, it’s actually a “protophobic force,” per the paper, and it’s not “afraid” of anything. Particles don’t have feelings based on what we can tell.
A recent development in this area is exciting, but the article that went viral botched the explanation so much that it does a dis-service to the topic. Let's explore what actually happened, and how a recent experiment with Helium may lead us closer to determining whether or not there is a fifth fundamental force out there, and if this is a connection to the dark matter mystery.
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"New evidence supporting the existence of the hypothetic X17 particle," Krasznahorkay et al (2019):
"Evidence for a Protophobic Fifth Force from 8Be Nuclear Transitions," Feng et al (2016):
"Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny," Quanta Magazine:
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