The story says that various world media reported that NASA had made an impressive finding: a parallel universe where time would go backward.
However, the same National Space Agency of the United States denied the note that the Daily Star of England first published on May 17, and that cites as a source a New Scientist article published on April 8, 2020.
The Colombian data checking medium ColombiaCheck was in charge of spinning all the information and found the true cause of the confusion.
“The New Scientist article quotes Peter Gorham, who does not work for NASA but is a professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, in the United States. Gorham is part of the team of scientists who are in charge of the Antarctic Transitional Boost Antenna (ANITA). This antenna, according to the University of Hawaii, is “a radio telescope for detecting ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray neutrinos from a scientific balloon flying over Antarctica and the first NASA observatory [to finance the project] of neutrinos of any kind” he explained.
In 2016, the ANITA team discovered neutrinos (subatomic particles) in the soil of the frozen continent in Antarctica, and at that time Gorham’s explanation was that “they could come from a parallel universe.”
However, ColombiaCheck clarified that “in an interview with his university in 2018, Gorham explained that it is likely that his team has discovered a new type of particle and, therefore, we are facing a new model of physics. But he doesn’t mention the possibility of a parallel universe in the interview. There is also no mention of a parallel universe in recent NASA releases, or on their Twitter account. “
What is the explanation then?
The theme of the discovery of the parallel universe is actually to do with a misinterpretation of a hypothesis launched by the New Scientist article.
One of the theories of the ANITA team is that the neutrinos found in Antarctica “have crossed our entire planet (from north to south, passing through the center of the Earth) … but neutrinos do not have the ability to ‘traverse matter to high speeds’, although a type of neutrino (called tau neutrino) does have the ability to momentarily transform into another particle, tau lepton, which can. ”
The New Scientist magazine indicates that, according to the scientists’ calculations, “the probability that twice a tau neutrino had crossed the Earth during an ANITA flight was one in a million”, so he dares to put forward a hypothesis own: this could only be the case with the existence of a parallel universe, created at the same time as ours during the Big Bang, but which is in constant contraction (while ours is in constant expansion).
Of course, neither NASA nor any scientific team have verified this theory.