The most obvious parallel (ahem) has to be Star Trek's recurrent mirror universe, which contains the Federation's evil twin - the Terran Empire.

Turning to our best sci-fi franchises might shed some light on our newly-discovered backward neighbors.

And finally, is it really reasonable to expect a team of scientists to spend years in an antarctic research base without recreating The Thing? Second, the project's goal - to turn Antarctica into a continent-sized neutrino telescope - reads like it was taken straight from a First Order to-do list. For a start, we know from 2001 Space Odyessy that it's a bad idea to name your project robot with a friendly acronym. A look at the experiment alone raises some worrying red flags. The next obvious question for scientists to ask is whether it's this mirror world, or our own universe, that's the dark one. RELATED: Tom Cruise, Elon Musk and NASA Shooting Action Film in Space. Simply speaking, the rationale for his suggestion is that neutrinos and other higher-energy particles should be blocked by the Earth, and only ever detected as stemming from outer space. Finding such particles coming from the Earth, therefore, implies something weird: they must be traveling backward in space and time. This means that, in a mirror world, down is up, right is left, and morning is the evening. In April, his team concluded that the particles may show the existence of an inverted universe, created during the Big Bang alongside our own. With conventional explanations drying-up, project lead Peter Gorham has turned to an alternative solution for the signals found by the ANITA balloon (Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna). Research teams have been attempting to decipher these unconventional neutrino signals for over a decade in one form or another, concluding that the particles just can’t be explained by our current understanding of physics. Discovered through a ' giant balloon carrying a collection of antennas float high above the ice,' scientists identified high energy signatures emitting from the earth.

Infinity's Prism ( 2008) with Christopher L.A NASA-backed research project in Antarctica has revealed traces of a possible reverse, parallel universe that feels like something out of Star Trek.

I Am the Law: The Judge Dredd Omnibus ( 2006) with David Bishop and Peter J.

Variant: Deus Ex: The Icarus Effect ( 2011).

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