1996/06/05 by Ephraim Fischbach, Fischbach, Ephraim, Carrick Talmadge +2
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/9606249
9 pages, two figures, requires epsf format; to appear in the Moriond Proceedings
arxiv created 1996/06/05 · openalex publication_date 1996/06/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The suggestion in 1986 of a possible gravity-like ``fifth" fundamental force renewed interest in the question of whether new macroscopic forces are present in nature. Such forces are predicted in many theories which unify gravity with the other known forces, and their presence can be detected by searching for apparent deviations from the predictions of Newtonian gravity. We review the phenomenology behind searches for a ``fifth force", and present a summary of the existing experimental constraints.