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Two Australian scientists believe they have found evidence of a parallel universe of strange matter within our own Solar System.
Dr Robert Foot and Dr Saibal Mitra report that close-up observations of the asteroid Eros by the Near-Shoemaker probe indicate it has been splattered by so-called "mirror matter".
Mirror matter is not anti-matter, it is altogether weirder. It is somehow a "reflection" of normal matter, a sort of parallel series of particles required to restore the balance of the Universe.
Sounds far-fetched - some believe so. However, experiments are underway to confirm or deny the existence of this strange, potentially significant but as yet undetected component of the cosmos.
You can read more about Strangeness in the Universe at the following link:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2463143.stm
This one reminds me of the tongue-in-cheek "announcement" years ago that research scientists had determined that cancer in laboratory rats was genetically-based!
ReplyDeleteActually there is some truth to that comment. I understand that a certain strain of laboratory rats are preferred for cancer research for the very fact that they have been bred to be highly susceptible to getting cancer.
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