By now you’ve probably seen a ton of headlines all over the internet alluding to NASA researches in Antarctica finding proof of the existence of a universe parallel to ours where time actually moves backwards.
But, here’s the thing: That’s not actually true.
What actually happened is pretty interesting, but it’s not what you think. This all stems from a story published by New Scientist from a few weeks back on a research paper published on rare particles detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), which is a radio telescope used to capture cosmic ray neutrinos from a scientific balloon.
Normally, the neutrinos come from space. They’re not a problem — they pass right through solid objects, generally. But during this event, the neutrinos were coming from the earth’s interior instead of space.
Weird! And definitely an anomaly. But it also does not mean that, as some have asserted, there is a backwards moving parallel universe out there chilling.
Ibrahim Safa, the lead writer of the paper, said so himself.
Of course, that didn’t stop people from freaking out about the headlines they saw.
But on the other hand? I can’t lie to y’all. Some of these jokes are pretty dang funny.
Sorry to disappoint you, folks. You won’t be linking with the parallel you anytime soon. At least not yet.
