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still_one

(92,190 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:00 PM May 2020

NASA may have uncovered evidence of a parallel universe

Last edited Fri May 22, 2020, 08:46 AM - Edit history (1)

(WHDH) — Scientists at NASA have reportedly uncovered evidence of a bizarre parallel universe where the rules of physics and time appear to be operating in reverse.
Researchers conducting an experiment in Antarctica discovered particles from a universe that was born during the same Big Bang the created the one we live in, according to NewScientist.
A NASA team was using a giant balloon to carry electronic antennas into the sky above the frozen wastes of Antarctica when they encountered a “wind” of particles from outer space that were “a million times more powerful” than anything they had seen before, the news outlet reported.
Low-energy particles have the ability to pass through Earth without any interaction, but higher-energy particles are stopped by the solid matter of Earth, the report stated.
High-energy particles are only detected if they are coming “down” from Earth, but NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna detected the particles traveling “up.”
The findings suggest that the particles were traveling backward in time from a parallel universe, the experiment’s lead investigator, Peter Gorham, said in an interview with the University of Hawai‘i News.
Otherwise, the particles would have had to change form before passing through Earth and back again, something that Gorham described as an “impossible event.”

Gorham explained that the Big Bang, which happened nearly 14 billion years ago, likely resulted in the formation of two universes — the one that the people of Earth live in and another where everything operates in reverse.

https://whdh.com/news/nasa-may-have-uncovered-evidence-of-bizarre-parallel-universe-where-physics-time-operate-in-reverse/

Update which contradicts this story:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/nasa-finds-parallel-universe-headlines/507-653e34aa-7296-4040-9be9-142b4093efbf


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NASA may have uncovered evidence of a parallel universe (Original Post) still_one May 2020 OP
Can we get enough of those to take us back to this date in 2016? n/t rzemanfl May 2020 #1
Dayam, still Leghorn21 May 2020 #2
42 Turbineguy May 2020 #3
Very interesting article. FM123 May 2020 #4
Thanks still_one May 2020 #14
Cool. I wonder what the parallel version of me is like?? Bleacher Creature May 2020 #5
Yeah ... okay ... mr_lebowski May 2020 #6
I wanna leave this one and go over there. roamer65 May 2020 #7
....so....aliens? FirstLight May 2020 #8
where Spock has a goatee, JenniferJuniper May 2020 #9
...and Dump is a smart, non-racist, actual human being? roamer65 May 2020 #16
Bizzaro World exists... Zoonart May 2020 #10
So, in the parallel universe Chainfire May 2020 #11
No. Donnie would be a slave working in the coal mines and owned by an ape... madinmaryland May 2020 #20
Interesting. Something finally perhaps concrete on the many parallel universes concept that has... SWBTATTReg May 2020 #12
So that's where Bejamin Button was from. SoonerPride May 2020 #13
Describing something, anything, as an "impossible event" marybourg May 2020 #15
I only have two questions CanonRay May 2020 #17
That's the one where President Clinton is named Hillary. Nt BootinUp May 2020 #18
Is trump smart there? I doubt it. spanone May 2020 #19
Ok. For some reason I cannot explain, that makes perfect sense to me. BComplex May 2020 #21
What a load superpatriotman May 2020 #22
Carl Sagan: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." ananda May 2020 #23
"That page can't be found." They pulled the story. Probably because it ain't true. progressoid May 2020 #24
Aha! Conclusive proof that the contrails got to them! Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #25
So can you go back in time in the other universe? Renew Deal May 2020 #26

FM123

(10,053 posts)
4. Very interesting article.
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:12 PM
May 2020

I clicked on the link from the article and found that the YouTube video with the scientist from the article (Peter Gorham) is quite interesting too.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
7. I wanna leave this one and go over there.
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:18 PM
May 2020

Where do I buy the ticket?

I’ve had my craw full of this universe.


madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
20. No. Donnie would be a slave working in the coal mines and owned by an ape...
Thu May 21, 2020, 04:00 PM
May 2020

Haven’t we heard that somewhere else. I think there was a book and movies about such a situation!

SWBTATTReg

(22,119 posts)
12. Interesting. Something finally perhaps concrete on the many parallel universes concept that has...
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:28 PM
May 2020

been proposed for many years.

I wonder what the red shift on such particles would be, if there would be such a thing. Would the red shift be negative or what?

And if the particles detected from the other universe are a million times more powerful than seen before, why are these particles more powerful than those in our universe, if both universes were born at the same time? The rules of entropy may not work the same IMHO, perhaps?

I hope more comes out on this interesting discovery.

marybourg

(12,631 posts)
15. Describing something, anything, as an "impossible event"
Thu May 21, 2020, 02:56 PM
May 2020

in the context of this article seems, well impossibly anachronistic.

ananda

(28,859 posts)
23. Carl Sagan: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
Thu May 21, 2020, 04:17 PM
May 2020

The evidence for that parallel universe is not there.
It's just one of many theories, many of which are
more plausible, to explain the anomolous particle.

See: hhttps://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-did-not-find-evidence-of-a-parallel-universe-where-time-runs-backwards/

progressoid

(49,990 posts)
24. "That page can't be found." They pulled the story. Probably because it ain't true.
Fri May 22, 2020, 03:11 AM
May 2020
https://www.sciencealert.com/of-course-nasa-did-not-detect-a-parallel-universe-in-antarctica

Here's The Real Truth Behind That Viral 'NASA Finds Parallel Universe' Story


...As Gorham, who is the principal investigator of ANITA, told ScienceAlert, "we have encountered a small number of anomalies in our data, and once we have exhausted all of the possible explanations within the Standard Model of physics, only then is it time to consider other ideas that push those boundaries - we are really not there yet, certainly not at the point where parallel universes are necessary!"

..."In this case, one or more journalists have evidently moved ahead with an article which was not verified, and for reasons which are not clear, have ascribed research and papers to us which we never wrote, and theories, such as those involving parallel universes, which neither we nor our collaborators hypothesised about or discussed in any publication before these results were attributed to our experiment," says Gorham.

"This is one of the reasons that scientific advances proceed by a more measured process, through peer review and verification by other investigators."

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,343 posts)
25. Aha! Conclusive proof that the contrails got to them!
Fri May 22, 2020, 03:28 AM
May 2020

Just like the 300 mpg carburettors, "they" don't want you to know the truth.

Gotta run; there's a black hole beeping at me.

Renew Deal

(81,858 posts)
26. So can you go back in time in the other universe?
Fri May 22, 2020, 08:09 AM
May 2020

Not a spoiler: Has anyone seen the Cloverfield movies? The first is a good disaster movie, but the three together are a great story.

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