The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force: Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics

by Allan Franklin and Ephraim Fischbach

Book Overview

This book provides the reader with a detailed and captivating account of the story where, for the first time, physicists ventured into proposing a new force of nature beyond the four known ones - the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces, and gravitation - based entirely on the reanalysis of existing experimental data.

Back in 1986, Ephraim Fischbach, Sam Aronson, Carrick Talmadge and their collaborators proposed a modification of Newton's Law...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319803484
• ISBN13: 9783319803487
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"