We live in a parallel universe! Wow! Wait, what?
By now you may have seen them: Breathless headlines flowing through the viral ether declaring that a new study has found the "first" evidence that we live in just one of many different parallel universes.
You might be thinking to yourself that, "It's amazing! It's science! The articles use the word 'study,' so it must be real! We're about to enter a new era of space science!"
And you know what? I'm here to be a total buzzkill, and tell you that you're probably wrong.
One of my favorite things to do is to track how science stories go viral, particularly dubious ones like this. I click my way down to the shadowy depths of the internet where a viral story was born, and as is often the case, the "multiverse" findings involves just one possible interpretation of a study's results. Read more...
More about Space, Nasa, Science, Astronomy, and Space ExplorationCOntributer : Mashable http://ift.tt/2pXkyeq
No comments:
Post a Comment