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From: rimey@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Ken &)
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Subject: Re: Fifth force
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This fifth force has NOT been "discovered".  Its existence has been SUGGESTED,
based on the reanalysis of some old experiments.  I expect that there are
at least a few grad students out there rushing to throw together experiments
to test this.  We should hear soon.

This talk of "hypercharge" is strange to many including me.  Apparently
hypercharge is equal to baryon number for ordinary matter.  So forget
hypercharge and talk about baryon number.

Finally, this publicity IS about something real, premature perhaps, but
not quackery.  The paper they are talking about is "Reanalysis of the
Eotvos Experiment" by Fischbach, et. al. in Physical Review Letters,
January 6, 1986.

I would like to know how the original Eotvos experiment was done.  I have
the paper, but it's in German.  Would anyone care to look it up and report
back to us?

						Ken Rimey
						rimey@dali.berkeley.edu