The Standard Model of physics is wobbling following a new and sensational discovery by scientists in the United States.
A scientific experiment has produced evidence researchers believe points to a previously undiscovered fundamental force of physics. All interactions in the natural universe - from a hand catching a ball falling from the sky, to magnetism and radioactive decay - are based on four fundamental forces. Physicists largely understand how these four forces - gravity, electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force (which holds matter together), and the weak nuclear force (which causes matter to fall apart) - are going to interact in any given situation. But a recent experiment at the high-tech Argonne National Laboratory just outside of Chicago has provided "strong evidence" that there may be a fifth fundamental force, or a previously undiscovered subatomic particle, that science knows nothing about. Image: A new fundamental force may have been discovered. Pic: Mark Lopez, Argonne National Laboratory The research was funded by the US Department of Energy which runs the Argonne National Laboratory and the…