“My reaction to reading a headline like that is to say, ‘well, that sounds really cool. “They revealed that they’re trying to open a portal into another dimension.”īut the researchers say that claim really is fiction.
“Scientists in Tennessee working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, have announced that they’re trying to figure out whether or not parallel universes exist,” claimed one Facebook post that received more than 130,000 shares.
#PARALLEL UNIVERSE MOVIE#
THE FACTS: Widely shared social media posts this month mischaracterized the past work of researchers at a lab in Tennessee, claiming they were conducting an experiment straight out of a science fiction movie - attempting to open a portal to an alternate dimension. The spokesperson said the use of the word “portal” was figurative, and the team “was not exploring a literal portal to a parallel universe.”
But a spokesperson for the lab and the lead researcher told The Associated Press that such descriptions mischaracterize the experiment. Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee conducted an experiment in 2019 to study a type of “exotic” neutron behavior, which some news outlets referred to as searching for “portals” to “parallel” realities. CLAIM: Scientists at a laboratory in Tennessee are trying to figure out whether parallel universes exist by attempting to open a portal into another dimension.ĪP’S ASSESSMENT: False.
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