RE: How to find forces that are not yet known?
September 20, 2015 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2015 at 7:33 am by Alex K.)
For example by producing the bosons carrying the force at particle accelerators and observing their decay products. This works best for strong supershort range forces like the misleadingly named "weak" force.
Additional new long range forces generally lead to violations of the gravitational equivalence principle and could become noticeable in precision measurements of gravitational attraction, e.g Eotvos type experiments or measurements of the Casimir effect which have astonishing precision. (For details see e.g. my paper where we demonstrate the virtual theoretical impossibility of superluminal neutrinos because they would have required new forces of this type - and references therein)
Additional new long range forces generally lead to violations of the gravitational equivalence principle and could become noticeable in precision measurements of gravitational attraction, e.g Eotvos type experiments or measurements of the Casimir effect which have astonishing precision. (For details see e.g. my paper where we demonstrate the virtual theoretical impossibility of superluminal neutrinos because they would have required new forces of this type - and references therein)
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
