A new experiment broke the well-known rules of physics - Awani Review

One of the most prevalent subatomic particles in the universe, the muon, appears to misbehave.

In fact, muons deviate so much from the laws of physics that scientists have begun to believe that our knowledge of it is incomplete, or that there is a force in the universe that we do not yet know.

But in a study Physicists in Fermilab, Illinois, the post this week published a discrepancy between the number of muons that must oscillate and the number of muons that must actually oscillate during a laboratory experiment.

In other words, this discovery is further evidence that something mysterious has played a role in shaping our universe – something that is absent from the rules of current physics.

It is possible that this unknown phenomenon is also related to dark matter, the mysterious cousin of matter that arose immediately after the Big Bang and makes up a quarter of the universe.

They can penetrate things like x-rays – a few years ago scientists used muons to discover a hidden room in the Great Pyramid of Egypt – but the particles only last two millionth of a second.

As muons in the device decay, the ultra-sensitive detectors can measure the direction in which the resulting small particles are moving.

It should be possible to calculate the exact amount of muons that will oscillate using the Standard Model of Physics, which includes everything we know about the behavior of particles.

“This is strong evidence that muons are sensitive to something not in our best theories,” René Fatemi, one of the leaders of the Fermilab Muon experiment, said in a report.

According to Thomas Tuebner, it is possible that a force not part of the Standard Model of physics could explain the muon jitter.

He says that this force could also explain the existence of dark matter, and perhaps even dark energy, which plays a major role in accelerating the expansion of the universe.

One hypothesis that could apply to both muons and dark matter, he added, is that muons and all other particles have nearly identical partner particles that interact weakly with them.

Moreover, Thomas Teopner adds, the mysterious effect on muons may not be related to dark matter at all, which means that the rules of physics are inadequate in more ways than one.