It seems appropriate on my physicist brother Mark’s birthday that I direct everyone to this amazing news. “Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature. They have found more evidence that sub-atomic particles, called muons, are not behaving in the way predicted by the current theory of sub-atomic physics.” They say this implies a new, previously unknown, fifth force on physics. Of course, I won’t try to comment much on this because I can’t pretend to understand it, but I nonetheless think this is pretty incredible. As the BBC article explains, this could be a complete paradigm shift for physics, and could shed light on things which are currently alluding us such as Dark Matter and Dark Energy. I’m not sure what the implications of this would be for the area Mark works in, String Theory, but I’m sure, like most physicists, he will be very excited about these discoveries.

Happy Birthday Bro.