{"id":139681,"date":"2022-05-22T02:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-say-there-may-be-a-mirror-world-to-our-own"},"modified":"2022-05-22T02:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:02:20","slug":"scientists-say-there-may-be-a-mirror-world-to-our-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-say-there-may-be-a-mirror-world-to-our-own","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say There May Be a \u201cMirror World\u201d to Our Own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-there-may-be-a-mirror-world-to-our-own2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three researchers published their findings this week in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.128.201301\" class=\"\">Physical Review Letters<\/a> <\/em>and say their hypothesis is based on problems with the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe expands. Yesterday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/ghostly-unseen-mirror-world-might-be-cause-of-cosmic-controversy-with-hubble-constant\/\" class=\"\"><em>SciTechDaily<\/em> report<\/a> on the study says predictions for that constant are a lot slower than what we\u2019ve measured in reality, and scientists are trying to figure out what\u2019s causing the discrepancy. They say the cause could be a mirror world we can\u2019t yet see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis might provide a way to understand why there appears to be a discrepancy between different measurements of the Universe\u2019s expansion rate,\u201d researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/news.unm.edu\/news\/ghostly-mirror-world-might-be-cause-of-cosmic-controversy\" class=\"\">said in a statement<\/a> about their findings.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have long built models of the cosmos. Now the task is to create one that doesn\u2019t violate any of the rules cosmological rules we\u2019ve learned so far. The researchers say that if the universe is somehow exploiting what we know about its physics and symmetry there could be an invisible mirror world very similar to ours but invisible except through gravitational impact on our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three researchers published their findings this week in the journal Physical Review Letters and say their hypothesis is based on problems with the Hubble Constant, the rate at which the universe expands. Yesterday\u2019s SciTechDaily report on the study says predictions for that constant are a lot slower than what we\u2019ve measured in reality, and scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}