NASA to Launch New Technology Today to Search for Parallel Universes

[n2doc]

Launch scheduled for today, Monday, the 21st of March. Sam Ting Principal Investigator for the experiment hopes that it will provide data that proves the existence of parallel universes that are composed of anti-matter --- discoveries could verify theories and answer basic questions regarding how the universe formed.

"The idea of multiple universes is more than a fantastic invention --- it appears naturally within several scientific theories, and deserves to be taken seriously" according to Aurelien Barrau, a French particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

According to Ting, the experiment has already accrued data as it awaited its launch date. Scheduled to fly aboard the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, STS-134, AMS-02 will search through cosmic rays for exotic particles, anti-matter and dark matter. The experiment will be mounted to the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) and will require no
spacewalks to attach.

While Ting has certain things that he hopes to discover, he believes that the most exciting questions are those that scientists don't even know to ask yet.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/03/-update-nasa-to-launch-new-today-to-search-for-parallel-universes-from-iss.html#more

[DCKit]

1. Sweet. I could use more closet space in my TARDIS. nt

[snot]

3. +1

[BadgerKid]

8. Try the Architectural Configuration option.

[gmudem]

2. Amazing.

If there are parallel universes out there, that would have to be mankind's most incredibly discovery ever made.

[snot]

4. So I wonder which AMS-02 we'll get back, the 1 that does find the evidence or the 1 that doesn't?

[Sinistrous]

5. !!!!!!!!!

[roguevalley]

6. wow. interesting stuff they are looking for ... anti matter,

dark matter, dark energon ... I can't wait. And I'm sure that I am can't waiting in about seven zillion parallel universe. :-D

I. Love. This. Stuff. Thank you, op.

[Kennah]

7. Just turn to Fox News

Oops. Article said parallel universe, not alternate reality.

My bad.

[sakabatou]

9. If we do find a new universe

What to do with it?

[Hugabear]

10. Some physicists believe gravity is a "bleed-through" force from a parallel universe

When you compare gravity to other natural forces (ie electromagnetism), it's extremely weak. For example, you can counter the effects of gravity simply by lifting your foot off the ground, or by holding a magnet over a metal pin. One of the ideas that I've heard is that our gravity could somehow be seeping into our universe from a nearby parallel universe, one that is less than an atom's width away, but completely invisible to us.

[originalpckelly]

11. If it is in some way connected to our universe, and therefore measureable...

then it is no parallel universe. It's just another part of our universe.

[gtar100]

12. Really now! Would a parallel universe be any better than the one we got?

I'd like one in juxtoposition to this one. One where politicians make sound, wise choices.