We’ve seen signs of a mirror-image universe that is touching our own

This is a featured cover article reported in New Scientist on Jun. 5, 2019 by Michael Brooks. Here are some excerpts related to the new theory:

“Many other puzzles can be naturally explained using the same model with the same parameters,” says Wanpeng Tan at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana (see “They do it with mirrors“). The
alternative universe could even provide a hiding place for dark matter and explain why it is so difficult to find …

Why is there something rather than nothing?

The universe should have birthed equal amounts of matter and antimatter, and they should have annihilated each other out of existence. Perhaps they didn’t because of the oscillation of particles called neutral kaons between our sector and the mirror sector.

Wanpeng Tan at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana thinks that oscillations in the early universe between normal and mirror kaons changed the balance of neutral kaons and neutral anti-kaons, which contain the building blocks required for making matter and antimatter.

However, there were some serious misunderstandings between the reporter and interviewees. Some inaccurate information in the cover article was later corrected in the blog “Corrections to recent media coverage on the mirror matter theory“.

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