NASA Scientists Detect A Parallel Universe in Which Time Flows Backwards | GarimaShares
By: Garima Bhaskar
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NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) has recorded a fountain of high-energy particles erupting from the ice in Antarctica. According to NASA Scientists, this can be a sign of the existence of a parallel universe.

The particles were believed to be tau neutrinos.

Tau neutrino is a type of slow-moving particle. It has the capacity to temporarily transform into a high energy particle called a tau lepton.

It happened in 2006 and 2014 too

ANITA is a stratospheric balloon payload flying over Antarctica. It detects cosmic rays through radio-wave signals when they bounce off the ice.

It detected a similar fountain of high-energy particles back in 2006 and 2014. But the NASA Scientists thought of them as noise or glitches.

An investigation in 2016 revealed that it was a phenomenon resembling an upside-down cosmic-ray shower.

“What we saw is something that looked just like a cosmic ray, as seen in the reflection of the ice sheet, but it wasn’t reflected. It was as if the cosmic ray had come out of the ice itself. A very strange thing,”

said Prof Gorham, Lead researcher and Physics Professor at the University of Hawai’i.

Particles might be traveling back in time, an indication of a parallel universe

According to researchers, these particles may actually be traveling back through time. In this parallel universe, the standard laws of physics operate in reverse.

“Not everyone was comfortable with the hypothesis,” Prof Gorham admitted to New Scientist.

This phenomenon can be a new type of physics, which in general terms is called beyond the standard model of physics.

“The discoveries suggest that signals came from upward-moving particles that tunneled through the earth before erupting from the ice. But cosmic rays are not predicted to do that in large numbers. One possibility is that cosmic rays from a bright supernova blasted all the way through the earth,” suggests a report by the University of Hawaiʻi.

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A parallel universe might have been created during the Big Bang

Some suggest it’s evidence that during the Big Bang a parallel universe was created which mirrors our own It would consist mainly of antimatter, and in which time flows backward.

This meant the tau neutrinos could have traveled through space as a high energy particle, transformed to a low energy particle as it passed through the Earth’s atmosphere and planet core, then transformed back to a high energy particle as it traveled out the other side and re-entered space.

The University of Hawaii’s Peter Gorham was part of the original expedition and originally suggested the particles were a kind of neutrino that was capable of transforming between high energy and low energy states that allowed it to pass through Earth and out the other side

About the Big Bang

The Big Bang Theory is used to describe the beginning and the evolution of our universe. It is based on fundamental observations.

It says that the universe was in a very hot and dense state before it started to expand 13,7 billion years ago.

This means that before the big bang happened, galaxies were closer to each other.

This hypothetical starting point of everything was an infinite concentration of energy referred to as a singularity.

In 1964, Wilson and Penzias discovered the cosmic background radiation, which is a like a fossil of radiation emitted during the beginning of the universe, when it was hot and dense.