In Search of the Fifth Energy
In 2012, Hungarian physicists were overjoyed. A small test that sometimes brings significant results. Scientists will be happy if something unexpected happens. The team of researchers was led by Attila Karznahar, a physicist at the Nuclear Research Center at Debrecen University. They were working with a small ordinary particle detector. The team of scientists quickly found another type of particle in the sensor. The particle is very light. Mass is equal to 34 electrons. But the particle’s surface does not match the standard model of physics, the number of particles found in it. It means that the particle has appeared from somewhere outside the known boundaries of the standard model!
So, What is wrong with them? Scientists thought. They decided to do the test again. The same result again. What is this particle? Their reckoning began again. Scientists have finally concluded that this is the Dark Photon. What’s that again? The names of Dark Matter and Dark Energy are certainly not unknown. That dark matter requires a kind of ball in the universe. The particle that is responsible for that ball is the dark photon.
The name Dark Photon is derived from the name of another force particle photon. Photons are particles of light. Not matter particles like electrons, protons, or quarks. The morning we see is at the same time particle and wave nature. That particle of light is called the photon. Photons are again of two kinds – real and virtual photons. When the electrons inside an atom descend from a high energy level to a low energy level, the photons we see are fundamental particles. Again, the particles responsible for electromagnetic energy are virtual photons. When a charged particle accelerates or rotates in a circular motion, that particle emits electromagnetic waves. Again, charged particles create electric fields. That is to say; its electrical effect spreads it in space. When another charged particle comes into that electric field, it feels a kind of energy. That force is the electromagnetic force. A magnet spreads its magnetic effect inside a vacuum. When another magnetic substance enters that field, it feels a magnetic pressure. It is also an electromagnetic force. Scientists have long ago shown that magnets and electricity are different forms of the same energy.
Again, light is also an electromagnetic wave with which we constantly live. The gravitational pull between the protons and the electrons inside the atom. The electrons revolve around the nucleus, which is a kind of electromagnetic force. And virtual photons have a role in how these electromagnets propagate.
Extensive research on Dark Matter and Dark Energy has been worldwide for four decades. But they were not found. Scientists want to create a scientific system with dark matter and dark energy like the visible world. It is the first attempt by Hungarian scientists to make this theory. They think that just as the electromagnetic force is visible to our familiar universe, giving us a complete picture of it, so is a force controlling the whole hidden mass. Hungarian scientists call that secret power the Dark Force, which will emerge as the fifth force in the universe. If there is energy, then the carrier of that energy is also needed. Attila Karjanyahar and her team say that the mysterious particle they discovered was a carrier of the Dark Force. They published another research paper in 2015. They claim that the fifth energy and the dark photon will be the missing link of the standard model. At first, no one bothered about their theory. But a team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, tested the findings of Hungarian scientists. They did not find any flaws in it. They have also spread this word. That’s why scientists all over the world are moved. Now just waiting for the time. The world’s most outstanding scientists will study the fifth energy and the dark photon. Either they will prove the research of Hungarian scientists, or they will disprove the theory of the number 5 force and the hidden photon.