Widdershins: The Unparticle

Despite its search for previously undiscovered particles and forces, the team's research doesn't have any connection with the hunt for the elusive Higgs Boson -- the so-called "God particle."

"The Higgs Boson is a prediction of the Standard Model of particle physics," Hunter said. "The proposed particles that are responsible for long-range spin-spin interaction are beyond the standard model."

The long-range spin-spin interaction is not related to quantum entanglement either, he added.

Quantum entanglement occurs when particles such as photons, electrons or molecules interact physically and then become separated. When a measurement made of one member of an entangled pair of particles causes it to take on a value such as a clockwise spin, the other member of the pair will take on the opposite value -- in this case a counterclockwise spin -- even though the two are separated by very large distances.