{"id":728180,"date":"2022-06-28T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728180"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T20:00:57","slug":"physicists-confront-the-neutron-lifetime-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=728180","title":{"rendered":"Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can &#8220;live&#8221; outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of our left-handed universe. They designed a mind-bending experiment at the Department of Energy&#8217;s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to try to detect a particle that has been speculated but not spotted. If found, the theorized &#8220;mirror neutron&#8221;\u2014a dark-matter twin to the neutron\u2014could explain a discrepancy between answers from two types of neutron lifetime experiments and provide the first observation of dark matter.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-06-physicists-neutron-lifetime-puzzle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can &#8220;live&#8221; outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}