A lot of "ifs" and "maybes" in this article!

Particles connected by spin at a distance? Does this not sound like quantum entanglement?

"There's just one catch: The technique relies on a fifth force of nature (in addition to gravity, the weak and strong nuclear forces and electromagnetism) that has not yet been detected"

Just a little catch :)

Not only they're looking for another force, they're looking for new "unparticle" with it (not including the spin-polarized electrons).

A lot of "ifs" and "maybes" in this article!

Yeah, science is like that. After all, if they already knew the answers, there wouldn't be any point looking, now would there?

The long range spin interaction or quantum entanglement as some may call it, is the physical confirmation of the longitudinal electric force. Their "fifth force" is most likely said force, and no such fifth force need be invented, just a better understanding of the existing forces. EM in particular, transverse (speed of light) and longitudinal (longitudinal forces act in real time over cosmic distances). If they can figure out how to change the spin axis of particles, might they find anti-gravity?

So why does the article or the researchers hide their search for a spin-spin particle in the probing of the earth? Why not just say they have devised an experiment to find this new particle and/or force. Seems like probing the earth is completely unrelated.

Like saying, I have this great way to overcome our energy problems-a perpetual motion machine--imagine that we could now power houses, drive cars all without traditional energy use. This would save trillions a year on drilling, production etc of oil and would greatly increase human productivity...oh wait, there is that small detail of having a perpetual motion machine...

Do you remember the Newman machine based on his new electromagnetic thory. This is very similar. (The patent office refuse to patent it they regard it as perfetual motion machine)

I don't understand, how they got into this colored map of polarized electron density. It just reflects the geomagnetic field including its south-atlantic magnetic anomaly. Of course the electrons in magnetic minerals are getting oriented with geomagnetic field and no fifth interaction or unparticles are required for it.

electron spins within the Earth, that have been aligned by the geomagnetic field. This is the long-range spin-spin interaction we were looking for.

But these electrons are already aligned with geomagnetic field due magnetic field lines - how they want to distinguish "fifth force" from it? And we know, many minerals are even remembering the shifts of magnetic poles - we are deducing geomagnetic history of Earth from it. How they do want to recognize some fifth force in such a mess? For me it's an example of mainstream officially supported crackpotism.

I would like to propose a particle detector using an amplified version of this spin spin field, but using an invisible nano force, feedback circuit. It would essentially act as an MRI for the Earth, but could be moved counter clockwise to produce HD/3D profiles. The obvious side benefit would be anti-gravity waves generated and stored in water.

The reason it is supposed to be zero in the core is that electric currents should be confined to near the surface of a conductor.