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Celerity

(42,663 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 08:41 PM May 2020

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-400-we-may-have-spotted-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/



IN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his colleagues would watch a giant balloon carrying a collection of antennas float high above the ice, scanning over a million square kilometres of the frozen landscape for evidence of high-energy particles arriving from space.

When the experiment returned to the ground after its first flight, it had nothing to show for itself, bar the odd flash of background noise. It was the same story after the second flight more than a year later.

While the balloon was in the sky for the third time, the researchers decided to go over the past data again, particularly those signals dismissed as noise. It was lucky they did. Examined more carefully, one signal seemed to be the signature of a high-energy particle. But it wasn’t what they were looking for. Moreover, it seemed impossible. Rather than bearing down from above, this particle was exploding out of the ground.

That strange finding was made in 2016. Since then, all sorts of suggestions rooted in known physics have been put forward to account for the perplexing signal, and all have been ruled out. What’s left is shocking in its implications. Explaining this signal requires the existence of a topsy-turvy universe created in the same big bang as our own and existing in parallel with it. In this mirror world, positive is negative, left is right and time runs backwards. It is perhaps the most mind-melting idea ever to have emerged from the Antarctic ice ­­– but it might just be true. …

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We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time (Original Post) Celerity May 2020 OP
Dunno why this is so mind-bending--- every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Right? TreasonousBastard May 2020 #1
Hey they found the upside down! nt abakan May 2020 #2
+100000 Celerity May 2020 #4
Just so there are no demogorgans AllyCat May 2020 #12
an explanation for bizarro trumpworld, where lies are truth? NRaleighLiberal May 2020 #3
Kickin' Faux pas May 2020 #5
Oh cool, they've found it! 2naSalit May 2020 #6
Yea I'm on the next worm hole there. Pepsidog May 2020 #21
Would that mean the asshole lost? I want to go. Lochloosa May 2020 #7
I sure hope MFM008 May 2020 #8
Almost sounds like electronic theory of hole flow. Baked Potato May 2020 #9
Stop the world... Harker May 2020 #10
I swear, once in high school I saw a clock go backwards underpants May 2020 #11
Right, Dude! And I saw the moon stop in its path for five full minutes! I was timing it! Nitram May 2020 #19
Super interesting - Thx JDC May 2020 #13
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2020 #14
touche Celerity May 2020 #15
¿sʍǝu ɓuᴉʞɐǝɹq sᴉɥʇ sᴉ ʎɥM LudwigPastorius May 2020 #16
Oh too funny! Canoe52 May 2020 #22
Interesting. I know that models for anti-matter... Buckeye_Democrat May 2020 #17
Just take me back to when Apple was 2 bucks a share. oldsoftie May 2020 #18
A time portal in my house. spike jones May 2020 #20
Don't bother with all the fancy stuff just yet Tyrs WolfDaemon May 2020 #25
Some Corgigal May 2020 #23
Looks like a Salvador Dali universe kimbutgar May 2020 #24
More Miro than Dali to me Celerity May 2020 #28
Makes a lot of sense to me. NoRoadUntravelled May 2020 #26
I always wave to myself when I pass. hunter May 2020 #27
"Yesterday, upon the stair, LudwigPastorius May 2020 #31
Thinking about effect preceding cause does my head in Ron Obvious May 2020 #29
"Go ask Alice"? saidsimplesimon May 2020 #30
Anyone here ever read: PCIntern May 2020 #32
Of course it was discovered in 2016! Wawannabe May 2020 #33
The GOP live in that alternate universe. CaptainTruth May 2020 #34
Yes, I heard about this next year. n/t Beartracks May 2020 #35

underpants

(182,277 posts)
11. I swear, once in high school I saw a clock go backwards
Wed May 20, 2020, 09:55 PM
May 2020

No I’m serious. I rarely took my eye off of the clocks those 4 loooooong years.

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
19. Right, Dude! And I saw the moon stop in its path for five full minutes! I was timing it!
Wed May 20, 2020, 11:03 PM
May 2020

As for the classroom, I was actually too busy, like, learning stuff!

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LudwigPastorius

(8,944 posts)
16. ¿sʍǝu ɓuᴉʞɐǝɹq sᴉɥʇ sᴉ ʎɥM
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:48 PM
May 2020

·ǝɓǝๅๅoɔ uᴉ ɯnqๅɐ uoᴉsuǝɔsⱯ sˌǝuɐɹʇๅoꓛ uɥoſ oʇ pǝuǝʇsᴉๅ puɐ ǝuᴉๅɐɔsǝɯ ɟo ʇunoɯɐ ǝɓɹɐๅ ɐ pǝddoɹp I ǝɔuᴉs ɹǝʌǝ ǝsɹǝʌᴉun ๅǝๅๅɐɹɐd sᴉɥʇ ʇnoqɐ uʍouʞ ǝʌˌI ʻʞɔǝH

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,847 posts)
17. Interesting. I know that models for anti-matter...
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:55 PM
May 2020

... behavior can be done by reversing time, treating it like normal matter traveling into the past.

If there's an "anti-matter universe", then I assume it's anti-matter would be like our normal matter traveling backwards in time too.

spike jones

(1,654 posts)
20. A time portal in my house.
Wed May 20, 2020, 11:13 PM
May 2020

The other day I noticed that the kitchen clock indicated 8:32 and when I walked to the bedroom that clock indicated 8:35. I thought that was really strange and went back to the kitchen and it was still at 8:32. I figured that there must be some kind of time warp in the hall between the two rooms. I know that it is true because I have tested it several times since then. Time jumps ahead from the kitchen to the bedroom, and reverses back going the other way. I am going to get a stop watch and see if I can determine exactly where the portal is located in the hall. I want to borrow a GPS because I have a hunch that there will also be a transporter effect at that time portal. I may be able to rig something together using several mirrors, the microwave oven, some tinfoil and a flashlight. Very strange.

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)
25. Don't bother with all the fancy stuff just yet
Wed May 20, 2020, 11:52 PM
May 2020

Last edited Thu May 21, 2020, 12:23 AM - Edit history (1)

Just try pissing into the portal until you find the point where it pisses back at you. Then you bring out the easy-bake...I mean microwave oven.




edit: (I forgot to say that I meant that comment in complete jest. One should never piss into an active time portal/dilation point. It can lead to odd questions and situations later or even before the peeing event occurs. Just trust me on that one, you probably don't want to hear the details )

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
26. Makes a lot of sense to me.
Thu May 21, 2020, 12:31 AM
May 2020

It was 2016 when I started saying that I felt as though we'd been transported to an alternate universe. The change was not dramatic enough to see it all at once but it seemed something was off. It was enough to make for an unsettled feeling but nothing I could put my finger on. Ever since then it's been becoming more so by the day and now the attitudes and norms have become almost unrecognizable from what they were before.

It's as though the alternate reality has a frequency like dark matter that pulls in and then reverses the energy frequency of whatever orbits too close to it. On a much smaller and personal scale it would be similar to the way Dr. Birx, Lindsay Graham and a slew of Rep Members of Congress have done. Get too close to tRump's orbit and you become trapped in the influence of dark matter.

Little too much for a Wednesday night, maybe. I spend a lot of time in my head.

LudwigPastorius

(8,944 posts)
31. "Yesterday, upon the stair,
Thu May 21, 2020, 10:27 PM
May 2020

I met a man who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away!" -Hughes Mearnes

 

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)
29. Thinking about effect preceding cause does my head in
Thu May 21, 2020, 08:15 AM
May 2020

Maybe everything is all pre-determined and fixed after all.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
30. "Go ask Alice"?
Thu May 21, 2020, 05:41 PM
May 2020
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Hamlet

Wawannabe

(5,580 posts)
33. Of course it was discovered in 2016!
Fri May 22, 2020, 12:02 PM
May 2020

It’s called tRumpworldHELL.
AND WE ARE LIVING IN THAT ALTERED UNIVERSE RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

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