#fifth force

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“I saw you eyes and you touched my mind. Although it took a while, I was falling in love”

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Fifth force: what update?

FROM 2023: The tantalising theory that a fifth force of nature could exist has been given a boost thanks to unexpected wobbling by a subatomic particle, physicists have revealed.

According to current understanding, there are four fundamental forces in nature, three of which – the electromagnetic force and the strong and weak nuclear forces – are explained by the standard model of particle physics.

However, the model does not explain the other known fundamental force, gravity, or dark matter – a strange and mysterious substance thought to make up about 27% of the universe.

Now researchers have said there could be another, fifth, fundamental force of nature.

Dr Mitesh Patel, from Imperial College London, said: “We’re talking about a fifth force because we can’t necessarily explain the behaviour [in these experiments] with the four we know about.”

The data comes from experiments at the Fermilab US particle accelerator facility, which explored how subatomic particles called muons – similar to electrons but about 200 times heavier – move in a magnetic field.

Patel says the muons behave a bit like a child’s spinning top, in rotating around the axis of the magnetic field. However, as the muons move, they wobble. The frequency of that wobble can be predicted by the standard model.

But the experimental results from FermiLab do not appear to match those predictions.

Prof Jon Butterworth of University College London, who works on the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, said: “The wobbles are due to the way the muon interacts with a magnetic field. They can be calculated very precisely in the standard model but that calculation involves quantum loops, with known particles appearing in those loops.

“If the measurements don’t line up with the prediction, that could be a sign that there is some unknown particle appearing in the loops – which could, for example, be the carrier of a fifth force.”

The findings follow previous work from FermiLab that showed similar results.

But Patel said there was a “fly in the ointment”, noting that between the first results and the new data, uncertainty has increased around the theoretical prediction of the frequency.

That, he said, could shift the situation. “Maybe what they are seeing is standard scientific thinking – the so-called standard model,” Patel said.

There are other issues. Butterworth said: “If the discrepancy is confirmed, we will be sure there is something new and exciting but we won’t be sure exactly what it is.

“Ideally the discrepancy would inform new theoretical ideas that would lead to new predictions – for example, of how we might find the particle that carries the new force, if that’s what it is. The final confirmation would then be building an experiment to directly discover that particle.”

The experiments at Fermilab are not the only ones to suggest the possibility of a fifth force: work at the LHC has also produced tantalising findings, albeit with a different type of experiment looking at the rate at which muons and electrons are produced as certain particles decay.

But Patel, who worked on the LHC experiments, said those results were now less coherent.

“They are different experiments, measuring different things, and there may or may not be a connection,” he said.

Butterworth added that the unexpected frequency of the muons’ wobbles was one of the longest-standing and most significant discrepancies between a measurement and the standard model.

“The measurement is a great achievement, and very unlikely to be in error now,” he said. “So if the theory predictions get sorted out, this could indeed be the first confirmed evidence for a fifth force – or something else strange and beyond the standard model.”

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star wars, but it’s just the memes pt. 2

HAPPY REVENGE OF THE FIFTH

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every day i cry about starkiller not getting to be in tl4j 🥲

aww noo here!! have this as consolation!!

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

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The Golden Years

(Don’t mind the spooky shadow)

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did anyone say book purring? @forcebookish

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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)

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Go at it, my fellow Dark Side flunkies!

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Rey Skywalker: Random Relationship Headcanons

You’re her first love. And the two of you are devoted to a fault.

She was totally right touch starved when you met.

When your hands first touched, Rey knew she couldn’t get enough.

Expect plenty of kisses. Random places and random times.

“What was that for?” You’d ask her. “Just because” she’d answer back with a giggle.

She jumps on your back and nuzzles you.

She loves it here you kiss her hands, knuckles, neck, etc.

Giggles escape her lips every time you kiss her on any place beside her lips.

You once told her if you could, you’d kiss every square inch of her body. She dragged you off somewhere private so you could.

When you’re home with her, she loves taking showers with you. She loves it when you gently glide the lathered up washcloth across her skin.

She loves to comb your hair and she loves it when you comb hers.

She’s a fierce warrior on the streets but at home, she’s a cuddly housewife.

Rey definitely wants kids some day. She never gave you a definite number, all you know is that it’s a big number.

She loves sleeping in your arms. Not just in bed, but also for naps on the couch.

She loves it when you caress her during love making. She loves staring into your eyes and letting you know that she loves you just as much as you love her.

You are the family to her that she wished she had growing up.

For @multi-fandom-enjoyer

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Tbh no wonder f5 went evil with powers like that. 'Fear' 'misfortune' 'brute force' how tf can you use any of these in daily life your options are immediately limited to evil or hero and the latter's existence is dependent on the former

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so... the scene in The Visitation where Five is forced to his knees anyone?

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“Teia or Viago should have been first talon not Lucanis”

Teia and Viago are the seventh and fifth talons respectively, Lucanis was the pre named first talon heir. Promoting the seventh or the fifth house to the first basically just because you think they’re neat would cause a fucking war among the crows. Sixth house, fourth house, third house and especially second house would be out for blood

Im not sure if house Dellamorte has any members other than Caterina, Lucanis and Illario. If Lucanis refused the position then house Dellamorte would probably cease to exist, because nobody is gonna give that to Illario, and the second talon would move up to the position of first talon (we literally don’t know who the second talon is at this point except that they’re probably house Balazar. That would not have been a satisfying conclusion). Lucanis would probably still have a target on his back to prevent him from changing his mind. Any other decision would lead to civil war among the crows at a time when they really cannot afford that.

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J-20 Mighty Dragon

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So it's May the 5th and I have to know

Have you ever heard of the tragedy of the Darth Plagueis the wise?

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