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Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
Thu May 21, 2020, 03:55 PM May 2020

SCIENTISTS DENY FINDING EVIDENCE OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE WHERE TIME GOES BACKWARDS


‘The truth is likely to be much less exotic,’ researchers behind the findings tell The Independent

Adam Smith
@adamndsmith
5 hours ago

Despite numerous reports, scientists have not found evidence of a parallel universe where time runs backwards.

A number of outlets reported this week that researchers in Antarctica had “found evidence” for a parallel universe based on an experiment where scientists found particles that seemed to break the laws of physics.

All of the reports cite the same source: a story from New Scientist from April 2020, about a finding made in 2016.

The report focuses on findings from the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), which uses an array of radio antennas suspended from a helium balloon flying at a height of about 37,000 meters to detect radio pulses sent out by cosmic neutrinos during flights in December 2006 and December 2014.

Normally, these are sent from space to the earth, but the researchers found some anomalous events where the neutrinos seem to have come from the planet’s interior – something which cannot be explained by current physics.

More:
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/parallel-universe-time-backwards-reverse-nasa-physics-antarctica-a9526226.html
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SCIENTISTS DENY FINDING EVIDENCE OF PARALLEL UNIVERSE WHERE TIME GOES BACKWARDS (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2020 OP
When I heard Trump's NASA made the "discovery" I suspected as much. nt live love laugh May 2020 #1
Too Bad Me. May 2020 #2
Dammit. jeffreyi May 2020 #3
Whew! Karadeniz May 2020 #4
When did they say that? Next week? keithbvadu2 May 2020 #5
Good one! n/t Judi Lynn May 2020 #7
Here's The Real Truth Behind That Viral 'NASA Finds Parallel Universe' Story Judi Lynn May 2020 #6

jeffreyi

(1,934 posts)
3. Dammit.
Thu May 21, 2020, 04:54 PM
May 2020

So much potential, gone. You mean we have to settle for this measley little universe we already live in?

Judi Lynn

(160,211 posts)
6. Here's The Real Truth Behind That Viral 'NASA Finds Parallel Universe' Story
Fri May 22, 2020, 02:30 AM
May 2020

SIGNE DEAN 22 MAY 2020

Every time tabloids and social media dramatically mishandle a science news story, the urge to unplug the internet and plug it back in again is excruciatingly strong.

If you've heard the recent claim that NASA detected a parallel universe (!) in Antarctica (!) where time runs backwards (!!), we're glad you've now clicked on this article. Strap yourselves in for the truth.

"It seems that for this tabloid science story, some speculative theoretical physics which might have had distant roots in plausibility was amplified for sensational reasons," University of Hawai'i at Mānoa experimental particle physicist Peter Gorham told ScienceAlert.

The egregious 'parallel universe detected' nonsense started out innocently enough.

The respectable New Scientist magazine published a (pay-walled) feature on April 8, discussing some anomalous results coming from neutrino detection experiments in Antarctica, and what these could mean for a speculative cosmological model that posits there's an antimatter universe extending backwards from the BigBang.

Then some online outlets, uh, 'borrowed' this report, the whole thing snowballed, and here we are.

More:
https://www.sciencealert.com/of-course-nasa-did-not-detect-a-parallel-universe-in-antarctica
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