{"id":414860,"date":"2021-04-12T16:58:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=414860"},"modified":"2021-04-12T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T20:58:48","slug":"what-monsters-might-be-lurking-there-scientists-say-particle-may-overturn-laws-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-monsters-might-be-lurking-there-scientists-say-particle-may-overturn-laws-of-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Monsters Might Be Lurking There?\u2019: Scientists Say Particle May Overturn Laws Of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhat-monsters-might-be-lurking-there-scientists-say-particle-may-overturn-laws-of-physics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=414860&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1546.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After twenty years, confirmation of research done in 2001 has been found that a tiny subatomic particle may be defying the best theory scientists have of how physics work, titled the Standard Model.<\/p>\n<p>At the Department of Energy\u2019s Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, scientists sent a beam of muons into a huge 50-foot-wide storage ring controlled by superconducting magnets. Muons are roughly 200 times bigger that electrons and occur when cosmic rays strike Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Muons seem to have an internal magnet which wobbles, also known as \u201cprecesses,\u201d like the axis of a top that spins. The rate of the precessing is determined by how strong the seeming internal magnet is. The muons circulating within the storage ring contact a quantum foam of subatomic particles that appear and disappear, thus slowing down or speeding up. That is called the \u201cmagnetic moment,\u201d which is \u201crepresented in equations by a factor called g,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/04\/07\/science\/particle-physics-muon-fermilab-brookhaven.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\">The New York Times<\/a> explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Standard Model should be able to predict the \u201cmagnetic moment\u201d with precision, but if additional forces or particles lie within the quantum foam that the Standard Model cannot explain, the muon\u2019s g-factor would be affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe predecessor experiment at DOE\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory, which concluded in 2001, offered hints that the muon\u2019s behavior disagreed with the Standard Model. The new measurement from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab strongly agrees with the value found at Brookhaven and diverges from theory with the most precise measurement to date,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.fnal.gov\/2021\/04\/first-results-from-fermilabs-muon-g-2-experiment-strengthen-evidence-of-new-physics\/\">Fermilab<\/a> stated.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prd\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevD.73.072003\">final result<\/a> of the 2001 research at the the Brookhaven National Laboratory was announced, and there was a discrepancy with the Standard Model\u2019s prediction. As Jennifer Ouellette of Ars Technica explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13.229357798165\">\n<p><em>The muon\u2019s measured magnet moment came in at a smaller value. Even more intriguing, that result was deemed a 3.7-sigma effect. (A signal\u2019s strength&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/dark-matter-search-converges-on-narrow-energy-range-20130718\/\">is determined<\/a>&nbsp;by the number of standard statistical deviations, or sigmas, from the expected background in the data, producing a telltale \u201cbump.\u201d This metric is often compared to a coin landing on heads several tosses in a row. A three-sigma result is a strong hint. The gold standard for claiming discovery is a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/2012\/07\/17\/five-sigmawhats-that\/\">five-sigma result<\/a>, comparable to tossing 21 heads in a row, for example.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She continued: \u201cThat said, three-sigma results, while tantalizing, pop up all the time in particle physics, and more often than not, they disappear once more data is added to the mix. So Fermilab revived the Muon g-2 experiment in hopes of either confirming or refuting the discrepancy once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest results closely matched the results from Brookhaven: \u201cTaken together, they boost the statistical significance to 4.2 sigma\u2014teetering just on the verge of the threshold required for discovery,\u201d Ouelette noted, adding, \u201cThat means there is only a 1 in 40,000 chance that this is due to a statistical fluctuation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Polly, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory who was a graduate student at Brookhaven and has been studying the issue for decades, stated, \u201cThis is our Mars rover landing moment. \u2026 After the 20 years that have passed since the Brookhaven experiment ended, it is so gratifying to finally be resolving this mystery.\u201d He added, \u201cSo far we have analyzed less than 6% of the data that the experiment will eventually collect. Although these first results are telling us that there is an intriguing difference with the Standard Model, we will learn much more in the next couple of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Renee Fatemi, a physicist at the University of Kentucky, echoed, \u201cThis is strong evidence that the muon is sensitive to something that is not in our best theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polly noted a graph showing white space where the latest results differed from the Standard Model, then said, \u201cWe can say with fairly high confidence there must be something contributing to this white space. What monsters might be lurking there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After twenty years, confirmation of research done in 2001 has been found that a tiny subatomic particle may be defying the best theory scientists have of how physics work, titled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312059,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1546.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018What Monsters Might Be Lurking There?\u2019: Scientists Say Particle May Overturn Laws Of Physics","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1546.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018What Monsters Might Be Lurking There?\u2019: Scientists Say Particle May Overturn Laws Of Physics","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}