The Brief: Parallel universe memes are trending on Twitter after scientists claim to have found a parallel universe where time moves backwards.

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Earlier this week, many publications (The New York Post, IGN, Forbes, etc.) reported NASA scientists found evidence of a parallel universe where everything is moving in the reverse. Those reports were all attributed to findings made in an April 8 article on New Scientist, titled “We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time.”
Experiments reportedly involved a giant balloon to carry NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) above Antarctica, where cold and dry air provided the perfect environment with little to no radio noise to distort their findings.
Scientists noted low energy particles – neutrinos – can pass completely through the Earth and will barely interact with the our planet at all, but higher energy objects are stopped by the solid matter of the Earth. And while a constant “wind” of high-energy particles constantly arrives on Earth from outer space, this experiment detected high energy particles coming “down” from outer space. “To detect a heavier particle – a tau neutrino – coming “up” out of the Earth would imply that these particles are actually traveling backwards in time,” wrote the Daily Star.
CNET, has since debunked the reports, claiming there is not enough evidence to support the extraordinary claims. Regardless, Twitter users entertained themselves by creating a number of NASA parallel universe memes.
The KKK CEO when he realizes hes black in the parallel universe pic.twitter.com/2w7JRzGmiZ
— Kola (@Kola_irl) May 21, 2020
Imagine a parallel universe where we got this instead. pic.twitter.com/nPNwxTyaER
— MisAnthro Pony (@MisAnthroPony) May 21, 2020
Many made jokes about the alternate versions of themselves.
Me, choking my parallel universe doppelganger who has a better life than me so I can take his place. pic.twitter.com/sPyGZY10uV
— Astor George (@grandpabbychuck) May 21, 2020
Me meeting myself in a parallel universe like damn bitch you couldn’t get your life together ANYWHERE? 😫😫 pic.twitter.com/M9V0cD0hcL
— 𝙱𝚘𝚍𝚎𝚐𝚊 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚎 ♠️ (@TrudiiBee) May 21, 2020
when i finally link up with parallel universe me pic.twitter.com/EQLabytFod
— N$A ㊝ SAITAMA (@ONEPUNCHMF) May 21, 2020
if the parallel universe is like our opposite, does that mean parallel universe me has her shit together? pic.twitter.com/myaSz5AT7x
— court🔪 (@lordvoldercourt) May 21, 2020
Me hoping parallel universe me is doing okay 🥺 pic.twitter.com/1p6UBCWGWF
— Moho 🙃🔫 (@malkhawam) May 21, 2020
Me vs Parallel Universe versions of me cuz they had shit sweet they whole life pic.twitter.com/PvHvWXb6gg
— Quaranking (@MoSanks) May 21, 2020
NASA: *says parallel universe exists*
Me: *trying to make contact with other me* pic.twitter.com/QB5p3AFOX2
— D’Angelo 🔥💯 (@flxn_d) May 21, 2020
So the reason we get deja vu is cause other parallel universe self already experienced it??? pic.twitter.com/fzuxVJHwsT
— jendy spicer (@jdashcastillo) May 21, 2020
my parallel universe self when she see the bullshit I be doing pic.twitter.com/tebe0XqrnQ
— A (@soulful6ixteen) May 21, 2020