Science: Large Hadron Collider - is there a new particle carrying a fifth force of nature..?

rze99

The Large Hadron Collider suggests a new particle carrying a fifth force of nature. Ooh,exciting!  

 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333693-200-the-large-hadron-collider-blips-that-could-herald-a-new-era-of-physics/#ixzz7IJj2Jitd

Kittyfrisk

Sounded really fascinating... then damn! Teaser to a subscription only read 

AustrianJohn

Here's another article: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-may-have-discovered-new-force-of-nature-in-lhc-experiment

mrkb

Wow, didn’t realise there was a fourth force after Earth, Wind and Fire!

Kittyfrisk

Had to be done... 

ftumch

mrkb said:

Wow, didn’t realise there was a fourth force after Earth, Wind and Fire!

Yeah of course, it's the Nolans innit 

RaymondLin

And the 2022 Nobel Prize goes to....

Sassafras

What's its superpower?

Shrews

There must be a huge risk that the handful of scientists who understand this stuff, don't get overexcited and push the boundaries too far.

I mean we've all seen The Fly, Hollow Man, Flatliners etc, so we know they're usually up to no good, and what if you got someone who was completely loopy running the show.

Who regulates them? Other scientists? Gulp! 

slacker

Kittyfrisk said:

Had to be done... 

m u l t i p a s s

Jfingers

extra phwooaaarrr points for the pic. I've never even seen the film.

Snap

Shrews said:

There must be a huge risk that the handful of scientists who understand this stuff, don't get overexcited and push the boundaries too far.

I mean we've all seen The Fly, Hollow Man, Flatliners etc, so we know they're usually up to no good, and what if you got someone who was completely loopy running the show.

Who regulates them? Other scientists? Gulp! 

And Dr Manhattan - didn't end well for him either. Not really

bertie

Snap said:

Shrews said:

There must be a huge risk that the handful of scientists who understand this stuff, don't get overexcited and push the boundaries too far.

I mean we've all seen The Fly, Hollow Man, Flatliners etc, so we know they're usually up to no good, and what if you got someone who was completely loopy running the show.

Who regulates them? Other scientists? Gulp! 

And Dr Manhattan - didn't end well for him either. Not really

dont forget Weird Science

Modulus_Amps

Gravity is one of the four and we don't even fully understand it at this point. There is still much for us to learn

bertie

Modulus_Amps said:

Gravity is one of the four and we don't even fully understand it at this point. There is still much for us to learn

its the only thing that's keeping these mad scientists grounded

Devil#20

Modulus_Amps said:

Gravity is one of the four and we don't even fully understand it at this point. There is still much for us to learn

Nor do we understand electromagnetic force either. In fact we invented theoretical particles to explain the weak and strong fundamental forces too. 

rze99

We really don't understand what time is either. 

If you haven't really got into trying to understand it, here is a great beginner lecture.  

Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time

PolarityMan

I always suspected as much

Shrews

To be fair to us as humans, we were still using horse and cart as our main transport a few hundreds of years ago.

Now we send rockets into space. 

Such rapid technological expansion in a relatively short space of time, makes you wonder what we might be doing in a 1000 years.

Back to horse and cart, or vaporising natives of the Planet Zog with ray guns?

Because, you know, those Zogians are so primitive. 

sev112

We’ll at least have proved one way of the other whether wood makes a difference to tone

rze99

going back to horse and cart at this rate