Space-based detector could find anti-universe

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By Robert EvansPosted 2010/08/25 at 2:48 pm EDT

GENEVA, Aug. 25, 2010 (Reuters) — A huge particle detector to be mounted on the International Space Station next year could find evidence for the anti-universe often evoked in science fiction, physicists said on Wednesday.

Speaking as the 8.5-tonne Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) machine was being loaded into a huge U.S. Air Force cargo plane at Geneva airport, they said the 20-year research program would bring a huge step forward in understanding the cosmos.

"If there is an anti-universe, perhaps out there beyond the edge of our universe, our space-based detector may well be able to bring us signs of its existence," U.S. scientist and Nobel laureate Samuel Ting told a news conference.

"The cosmos is the ultimate laboratory."

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Fascinating....

[aquart]

1. Why do we want to?

Other than that it's cool.

[Posteritatis]

3. If only someone wrote an article in which that question was answered... (nt)

[denbot]

6. In order to explore our universe we must first understand it.

Our survival as a species demands that we expand beyond our "nest".

[sharp_stick]

2. Damnit they'd better

find a me with a goatee and pain applicator to go after people that piss me off.

[Cheap_Trick]

4. Does that mean we can finally send the repuglicants back to their home? nt

[krispos42]

5. So maybe we could find some Democrats WITH a spine?

That would be a welcome change!