Tennessee scientists are searching for a mirror universe

[We Never Know]

Who knows? We still haven't explored all of our oceans yet.


Tennessee scientists are searching for a mirror universe and it could be sitting right in front of you

"At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.

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."

Tennessee scientists are searching for a mirror universe and it could be sitting right in front of you

 

[Brian2]

It's almost like an April fools day joke.
Good to see you back.

 

[exchemist]

Who knows? We still haven't explored all of our oceans yet.


Tennessee scientists are searching for a mirror universe and it could be sitting right in front of you

"At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe.

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."

Tennessee scientists are searching for a mirror universe and it could be sitting right in front of you

Is her name Alice, by any chance?

 

[We Never Know]

Is her name Alice, by any chance?

Karen I think

 

[PureX]

There are scientists in Tennessee?

Someone should tell them it's just a reflective surface on the back of the glass.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

"“So the question I get the most is, were we successful in opening the portal? And unfortunately, no, we did not find any evidence of parallel universes or new interactions with the neutron and the Dark Sector,” scientist Leah Broussard said." [source]

 

[Brickjectivity]

If her experiment had succeeded our understanding of Physics would have been transformed. It was way better than buying a lottery ticket. Even though the experiment has failed she may win an Ignobel for this.