9/21/2023 0 Comments Nasa parallel universe![]() ![]() If only those behind the follow-up stories had full access to New Scientist stories. It didn’t help that the last sentence of the story, before the paywall starts, offered one more tease: “It is perhaps the most mind-melting idea ever to have emerged from the Antarctic ice – but it might just be true…” The New Scientist article is behind a paywall, so journalists from other outlets seemingly read just enough to believe NASA was onto something real. And the subhead advanced the possibility: “Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down.” “We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time,” the New Scientist headline read. The article instead teased - much as a child stretches the truth just a bit but doesn’t lie - the possibility of a separate universe. That article reported a scientific finding in Antarctica and indeed mentioned an alternate universe, but it wasn’t technically claiming that the scientists had found one. They got this idea from an April 2020 New Scientist article. These stories went on to recount how the scientists in Antarctica had detected another universe where the laws of physics ran counter to ours. “ NASA scientists detect parallel universe ‘next to ours’ where time runs backward,” declared a headline in a British tabloid. Their collective error appears to be nothing more than a rush to post stories with clickbait headlines. Stymied by a PaywallĪccusing the news outlets of negligence would be too harsh of a judgement. ![]() For now, at least, we’re relegated to living in our known reality here on good ol’ Earth. It’s unclear if in this other reality backward meant that we (presuming it was, in fact, another version of us) started life in old age and got younger, just as Brad Pitt did in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” But any further discussion about time moving in the other direction, or about the alternate universe itself, proved to be anti-climactic because the stories about this discovery were a bit sensationalized. ![]() A parallel universe had been found, those stories reported, and it looked as if time was running backward there. If alternate universes actually exist, perhaps the writers and editors in those parallel worlds take great pains to avoid confusion in their articles about scientific discoveries.Ĭonfusion is what happened in our world when several news outlets reported a startling finding from NASA-funded cosmic experiments in Antarctica. ![]()
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