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Physicists are searching for… A MIRROR UNIVERSE

Imagine a world almost like our own. It includes everything from galaxies and stars to humans and animals, but there is one important difference: everything is reversed. Earth orbits the Sun in the opposite direction. The heart is located in the right side of the body. Most strangely of all, clocks tick backwards.

In recent years, physicists in different parts of the world have responded to a series of unexpected experimental results by developing a theory for just such a mirror universe. According to the theory, neutrons are the key to finding this reversed world. The tiny atomic building blocks seem to disappear briefly during experiments, and the idea is that the neutrons travel to the mirror universe to

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