The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been doing research into neutrons that could potentially confirm the existence of real-life portals. This has got the internet thinking about the 'Upside Down' in Stranger Things. However, scientist Leah Broussard was quick to explain, according to the Gaming Bible.
Broussard said that the "portal" used in their world is figurative. She said that they are looking for new ways that the matter that they know interacts with the dark matter that makes up a huge chunk of the universe.
So far, they haven't been successful in opening the portal, and they haven't found evidence of parallel universes or new interactions with the dark sector or neutron. However, they haven't lost hope yet, and that is because they believe that there really is a possibility that the neutrons that turn into dark matter aren't only sensitive to their experiment. With that, they plan to do more sensitive searchers and future experiments.
Responding to the speculations that they are trying to open portals to parallel universes, "My reaction to reading a headline like that is to say, 'well, that sounds really cool. I wonder what they're doing because it really doesn't like my research," Broussard said, according to Roanoke.
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Neutrons and Mirror Matter
The theorized mirror sector, which is sometimes referred to as the mirror universe, is believed to be just another spy of the articles and the interactions that we have in the universe.
It is not the same thing as a parallel universe because if that's the case, it would exist in the same spacetime, which is a part of our universe.
The mirror sector, on the other hand, would not be in the spacetime of our universe. It would be in some other spacetime, and it might not even be connected to our universe at all. This is where the idea of a portal comes in. The portal is the connection to the other spacetime.
Now, you may think that it's just the same as a parallel universe, but it's not. A parallel universe shares the same physics and laws as ours. There are just two different universes that were both created at the same time.
With the mirror sector, the physics and the laws there would be different. In fact, they may not even be the same as ours. On top of that, the mirror sector would not even be created at the same time as ours. In fact, it could be created much later or even earlier than ours.
So what does this have to do with neutrons? Neutron, as we all know, is an uncharged particle that has a neutral charge and is made up of three quarks. But there are theories that say that neutrons aren't the only form that there is of matter. There is a possibility that there is another form of matter that interacts with the matter that we have, and that is called dark matter. This dark matter is believed to be the mirror matter.
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Written by April Fowell
