Unexpected Decay Results May Point to New Fundamental Force--or Simply Bad Science

UC Irvine Professor Jonathan Feng,who has recently made a splash withhis new theory postulating a fifthfundamental force.Image Credit: J. Feng, UC Irvine In the most widely-accepted description of the rules that govern our universe, the Standard Model of particle physics, there are four fundamental forces, each of which behaves according to its own rules. There's the familiar gravity and electromagnetism, as well as the more obscure strong and weak nuclear forces, which govern things like radio...