The Net Advance of Physics:
FIFTH FORCE

Fundamental Forces: Fifth:
Gravitation: Eötvös Experiment:
Gravitation: Short-Range:
Quantum Numbers: Hypercharge: Hypercharge-Dependent Forces:

• General: Definitions:
  • Fifth Force [Wolfram ScienceWorld]

• General: Introductory:
  • Antigravity II: A Fifth Force? by John G. Kramer [Analogue, (Sept. 1986)]

• General:
  • Fifth force [Wikipedia]
  • Reanalysis of the Eötvös experiment by Ephraim Fischbach et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 3 (1986)]
  • The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force: Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics by Allan Franklin [AIP Press, 1993]
  • Ten Years of the Fifth Force by Ephraim Fischbach and Carrick Talmadge [Moriond 1996/06]
  • Short range gravitational fields: Rise and fall of the fifth force by Luigi Foschini [Ann. Fond. L. de Broglie 23, 156 (1998)]
  • Experimental Status of Gravitational-Strength Forces in the Sub-Centimeter Regime by Joshua C. Long et al. [Nucl. Phys. B 539, 23 (1999)]
  • The Fall of the Fifth Force by Allan Franklin [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2002)]
  • Bounds on fifth forces from precision measurements on molecules by Edcel John Salumbides et al. [2013/04]
  • Search for New Physics with Atoms and Molecules by M. S. Safronova et al. [2017/10] 112 pp.
  • The Enduring Significance of Eötvös' Most Famous Experiment by Ephraim Fischbach [2019/01]
  • Charged Neutron Stars and Observational Tests of a Dark Force Weaker Than Gravity by Marco Fabbrichesi and Alfredo Urbano [2019/02]
  • Fifth Forces and Discrete Symmetry Breaking by Peter Millington [2019/03]
  • Hints of Modified Gravity in Cosmos and in the Lab? by Leandros Perivolaropoulos and Lavrentios Kazantzidis [International Journal of Modern Physics D 28, 1942001 (2019)]
  • Constraint on the Fifth Force through Perihelion Precession of Planets by Bing Sun et al. [2019/10]
  • Astro- and Quantum Physical Tests of Screened Scalar Fields by Christian Käding [2019/10]
  • The Fifth Force? by Abhishek Das and B. G. Sidharth [2019/11]
  • Screened fifth forces lower the TRGB-calibrated Hubble constant too by H. Desmond and J. Sakstein [2020/03]
  • Dynamical evidence for a fifth-force explanation of the ATOMKI nuclear anomalies by J. L. Feng et al. [2020/06]
  • Significance of composition-dependent effects in fifth-force searches by E. Fischbach et al. [2020/12] Argues that at least three pairs of samples of varying composition must be tested.
  • MICROSCOPE's constraint on a short-range fifth force by J. Bergé et al. [2021/02] The constraints are weak, because MICROSCOPE was not designed for this purpose.
  • Pendellösung interferometry probes the neutron charge radius, lattice dynamics, and fifth forces by B. Heacock et al. [2021/03]
  • Fifth-force screening around extremely compact sources by C. Burrage et al. [2021/04]
  • Some recent developments in fifth-force searches by E. Fischbach et al. [2021/05]
  • Indications of a fifth force coupling to baryon number in the Potter test of the weak equivalence principle by M. H. McDuffie et al. [2021/05]
  • Asteroid g-2 experiments: New fifth-force and ultralight-dark-sector tests by Y.-D. Tsai et al. [2021/07]

• Type: CHAMELEONS:
  • A Chameleon Primer by Philippe Brax et al. [Moriond 2007/06]
  • What laboratory experiments can teach us about cosmology: a chameleon example by Clare Burrage [2019/01]
  • A General Study of Chameleon Fifth Force in Gravity Space Experiments by Martin Pernot-Borràs et al. [2019/07]
  • Effects of a scalar fifth force on the dynamics of a charged particle as a new experimental design to test chameleon theories by J.-P. Uzan et al. [2020/06]

• Re: DARK MATTER:
  • New Bounds on Dark Energy Induced Fifth Forces by Philippe Brax et al. [2019/02]
  • Testing Fifth Forces from the Galactic Dark Matter by Lijing Shao [2019/05]
  • Screened Fifth Forces Mediated by Dark-Matter--Baryon Interactions: Theory and Astrophysical Probes by Jeremy Sakstein et al. [2019/07]
  • Asteroid g-2 experiments: New fifth-force and ultralight-dark-sector tests by Y.-D. Tsai et al. [2021/07]
  • Unveiling dark fifth forces with linear cosmology by M. Archidiacono et al. [2022/04]

• Re: HUBBLE CONSTANT:
  • A Local Resolution of the Hubble Tension: The Impact of Screened Fifth Forces on the Cosmic Distance Ladder by Harry Desmond et al. [2019/07]

• Re: SCALAR-TENSOR GRAVITY:
  • Fifth forces and broken symmetries in the Jordan frame by E. J. Copeland et al. [2021/11]

Return to History and Philosophy of Science Page

To contribute to this page, write Karen Rae Keck.