{"id":3928725,"date":"2026-11-03T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-step-closer-to-the-zeptoverse-after-42-year-particle-search\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:04:00","slug":"physicists-step-closer-to-the-zeptoverse-after-42-year-particle-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/physicists-step-closer-to-the-zeptoverse-after-42-year-particle-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists step closer to the &#8216;Zeptoverse&#8217; after 42-year particle search"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion &#8220;beauty&#8221; particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spanning more than 40 years and brings physicists closer to exploring the &#8220;Zeptoverse&#8221;\u2014an unexplored world that exists at distances of a billionth of a trillionth of a meter, or a &#8220;zeptometer,&#8221; where new particles and forces of nature may be hiding.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-physicists-closer-zeptoverse-year-particle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion &#8220;beauty&#8221; particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), follows a search spanning more than 40 years and brings physicists closer to exploring the &#8220;Zeptoverse&#8221;\u2014an unexplored [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}