NBC: Oak Ridge Nat. Lab physicist trying to open a portal to a parallel universe

[hlthe2b]

If Trump doesn't exist in that realm, can I please GO?!

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

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https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/scientists-are-searching-mirror-universe-it-could-be-sitting-right-ncna1023206?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

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.

“It’s pretty wacky,” Broussard says of her mind-bending exploration.

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.

[milestogo]

1. Do we have to pay taxes there?

[lagomorph777]

22. No, in mirror-world, the taxes pay you!

[WA-03 Democrat]

51. LOL!

[emmaverybo]

52. Oh delightfully clever.

[underpants]

54. LOL. So it's like Alaska.

[nykym]

2. Now if we can figure out a way

to make trump and his minions small enough and send them there...

[Moostache]

31. Easy!!!

Just tell him Obama did it first and step aside...he would not be able to resist!

[jcgoldie]

3. Oh fuck!

If she can find the one where the orange douchebag got like a few thousand less votes in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania a couple years ago I so volunteer for the portal!

[TheBlackAdder]

28. I jumped dimensions already. It sucks worse than this one! There's no escape! :-D

[NewJeffCT]

4. We already know what's there

the Upside Down

[FarPoint]

7. Hahahaha....

Then again...it could happen...

[Baitball Blogger]

14. Yes, but what if our side is the dark side?

[lunatica]

25. Scotty sez,"Beam me up!"

[Afromania]

5. Ooohhhh boy. This is how it begins..

[cbdo2007]

6. I definitely am open to the possibility of alternate dimensions...

or whatever you want to call them, so this may be interesting. Maybe proof will finally happen.

[ret5hd]

15. If this experiment works I'll try to let you kn

[Nay]

35. LOLOL!!

[lunatica]

26. We already have alternate facts

It shouldn’t be hard to adjust.

[RandiFan1290]

8. C-137

[TreasonousBastard]

9. This all started because someone noticed that free neutrons acted differently than bottled neutrons.

But it doesn't explain how you get neutrons in a bottle.

[TeamPooka]

24. if the bottle has a childproof cap you'll never get those neutrons out.

[tblue37]

53. Sure you can--just get a child to open the bottle. nt

[Blue_true]

41. The "bottle" could have been a powerful magnetic field.

Neutrons, like Protons are made up of smaller fractional charge particles. If instruments are sensitive enough, they possible could detect reaction of those sub-neutron particles to the magnetic field. Neutrons not bottled by a magnetic field would act differently because their sub particles are not under stress from that field.

I come from a mindset that there is a yet undiscovered primary physical quantity in the universe and beyond, a force that seem to counter gravity but actually does not.

[TreasonousBastard]

46. That makes more sense than thinking of it as a beer bottle.

[Blue_true]

47. That would have to be one helluva beer bottle. nt

[roamer65]

10. Let me thru to the one with Al Gore and Hillary as president.

Get me off THIS stupid roller coaster.

[Doodley]

11. If it is like this world but without Trump, I'd like to go.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

18. Maybe it has Bizarro Trump

[Caliman73]

42. No. We are the one with Bizarro Trump.

The mirror verse has Rhodes Scholar Trump who is a Democrat and has ushered in world peace.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

12. Does Mr. Spock have a beard there?

[Claritie Pixie]

13. HA!!! One of my favorite episodes.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. Doesn't this sort of stuff usually end badly?

[Blue_true]

43. Maybe we will catch a break.

Beings from another dimension might step through the wormhole she creates and say "we are here to take Donald Trump and his asskicker Mike Pence and save your puny world by making Nancy Pelosi USA President. Fuck MAGA, we won't be denied". Then they will zap those two assholes away from a grateful world.

[nolabear]

17. As if we didn't have demagorgons enough already.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Buckaroo Banzai used the Oscillation Overthruster back in '84.

Got it from Dr. Emilio Lizardo, before he vanished mysteriously.

[eppur_se_muova]

39. Was waiting for the BB reference !

That bit where Dr. Lizardo accelerated toward a wall reminded me of the experimental setup in the OP ... or the other way around ...

[Retrograde]

20. I want to visit one where H. sapiens hasn't evolved (n/t)

[Blue_true]

45. Sorry.

Rightwing evangelicals say that the God of all universes is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Adonis. Maybe Satan is handing out tickets?

[FakeNoose]

21. It sounds like the plot of a new Hollywood blockbuster movie

[triron]

23. Cosmologists have 'theorized' that one possible interpretation of quantum mechanics is a multi-verse

but I really doubt that there exists technology to even decide on this interpretation much less find another
member of the multi-verse.

[brush]

38. I'm with you. It's a good story though. Someone is getting prime media attention.

[riversedge]

27. In Trumps America, I already feel that I live in an alternative universe. But this is

supposedly a mirror universe. It mirrors ours. Nope. not going there.

[randr]

29. Stranger Things

Life imitates art?

[Croney]

30. But this only works on 11/11.

Which happens to be my birthday. Seriously, there are people who think 11/11 holds the key to a magic portal.

[tirebiter]

32. Invite Trump to look in

Promise him a DeLorean

[Hortensis]

33. I've been wishing for a world where those who find liberal

democracy, with its necessary compromises, unacceptable could go have what they think they want.

[Brother Buzz]

34. A portal to a parallel universe is about as real as a.....

Black Hole was to me forty years ago.

I am willing to believe it. I can believe anything. Only it may take a decade for me to wrap my head around the concept.

[PCIntern]

36. If Trump says his name backward

will he disappear into the void a la Mr Mxyxptlk?

[Codeine]

37. This is how you get the Crime Syndicate.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

40. While this interests me, in the back of my mind I know a lot of science is funded

by defense contractors and government arms of the alphabet agencies looking to find new ways to weaponize science.

[Baclava]

44. I saw this before, good movie

[912gdm]

48. Oh it was...

[Leith]

49. Species 8472 is going to come here and retaliate

Damn.

[elevator48]

50. Up to this point I have personally identified

Crutons, morons and fig newtons.

[underpants]

55. Ethical question here - Do we really want a parallel Tennessee?

Isn't one more than enough?

[Trumpocalypse]

56. What if the parallel Tennessee is a blue state?

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

57. Plot twist: WE are the mirror universe

[Blue_playwright]

58. Yikes. Did they not see the show??

Lol