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July 3, 2019 01:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/jLasKX0TEyE/scientists-are-using-subatomic-particles-to-search-for-a-mirror-universe
Scientists Are Using Subatomic Particles To Search For a Mirror Universe
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: 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 ring-shaped 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. The mirror world, assuming it exists, would have its own laws of mirror-physics and its own mirror-history. You wouldn't 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. Broussard says her initial search for the mirror world won't be especially difficult. But if she unequivocally detects even a single mirror particle, it would prove that the visible universe is only half of what is out there -- and that the known laws of physics are only half of a much broader set of rules.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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