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If Trump doesn't exist in that realm, can I please GO?!Link to tweet
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/scientists-are-searching-mirror-universe-it-could-be-sitting-right-ncna1023206?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
She calls it an oscillation that would lead her to mirror matter, but the idea is fundamentally the same. In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel, past a powerful magnet and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is just right and if the universe cooperates some of those particles will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our own.
Its pretty wacky, Broussard says of her mind-bending exploration.
The mirror world, assuming it exists, would have its own laws of mirror-physics and its own mirror-history. You wouldnt find a mirror version of yourself there (and no evil Spock with a goatee sorry "Star Trek" fans). But current theory allows that you might find mirror atoms and mirror rocks, maybe even mirror planets and stars. Collectively, they could form an entire shadow world, just as real as our own but almost completely cut off from us.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)WA-03 Democrat
(3,056 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)underpants
(182,946 posts)nykym
(3,063 posts)to make trump and his minions small enough and send them there...
Just tell him Obama did it first and step aside...he would not be able to resist!
jcgoldie
(11,655 posts)If she can find the one where the orange douchebag got like a few thousand less votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania a couple years ago I so volunteer for the portal!
TheBlackAdder
(28,227 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)the Upside Down
FarPoint
(12,464 posts)Then again...it could happen...
Baitball Blogger
(46,768 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Afromania
(2,771 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)or whatever you want to call them, so this may be interesting. Maybe proof will finally happen.
ret5hd
(20,533 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)It shouldnt be hard to adjust.
RandiFan1290
(6,256 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)But it doesn't explain how you get neutrons in a bottle.
TeamPooka
(24,264 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Neutrons, like Protons are made up of smaller fractional charge particles. If instruments are sensitive enough, they possible could detect reaction of those sub-neutron particles to the magnetic field. Neutrons not bottled by a magnetic field would act differently because their sub particles are not under stress from that field.
I come from a mindset that there is a yet undiscovered primary physical quantity in the universe and beyond, a force that seem to counter gravity but actually does not.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Get me off THIS stupid roller coaster.
Doodley
(9,143 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)Caliman73
(11,751 posts)The mirror verse has Rhodes Scholar Trump who is a Democrat and has ushered in world peace.
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,897 posts)Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,446 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Beings from another dimension might step through the wormhole she creates and say "we are here to take Donald Trump and his asskicker Mike Pence and save your puny world by making Nancy Pelosi USA President. Fuck MAGA, we won't be denied". Then they will zap those two assholes away from a grateful world.
nolabear
(41,994 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,990 posts)Got it from Dr. Emilio Lizardo, before he vanished mysteriously.
eppur_se_muova
(36,304 posts)That bit where Dr. Lizardo accelerated toward a wall reminded me of the experimental setup in the OP ... or the other way around ...
Retrograde
(10,164 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Rightwing evangelicals say that the God of all universes is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Adonis. Maybe Satan is handing out tickets?
FakeNoose
(32,816 posts)triron
(22,025 posts)but I really doubt that there exists technology to even decide on this interpretation much less find another
member of the multi-verse.
brush
(53,922 posts)riversedge
(70,346 posts)supposedly a mirror universe. It mirrors ours. Nope. not going there.
randr
(12,417 posts)Life imitates art?
Croney
(4,671 posts)Which happens to be my birthday. Seriously, there are people who think 11/11 holds the key to a magic portal.
tirebiter
(2,539 posts)Promise him a DeLorean
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)democracy, with its necessary compromises, unacceptable could go have what they think they want.
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Black Hole was to me forty years ago.
I am willing to believe it. I can believe anything. Only it may take a decade for me to wrap my head around the concept.
PCIntern
(25,601 posts)will he disappear into the void a la Mr Mxyxptlk?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)DemocraticSocialist8
(396 posts)by defense contractors and government arms of the alphabet agencies looking to find new ways to weaponize science.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)912gdm
(959 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)Damn.
elevator48
(53 posts)Crutons, morons and fig newtons.
underpants
(182,946 posts)Isn't one more than enough?
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)Blue_playwright
(1,568 posts)Lol