Have we discovered a Parallel Universe?

A few days ago media outlets reported indications of a Parallel Universe in Antarctica from scientists using the ANITA antenna. Now bigger media outlets have come out claiming the find is not associated with a parallel universe. While this subject is very much an infant theory would we truly know enough to dismiss such a claim if we don't have the knowledge at this time to distinguish it effectively?

Heavy.com

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This discovery was made by the NASA-sponsored research group Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA. The group was funded for $35 million in 2003 to look for and study “ghostly particles that fill the universe,” according to NASA. The project uses a specially made balloon that “detects radio waves emitted when high-energy neutrinos interact in the Antarctic ice shelf,” NASA reported. The mission is being led by Peter W. Gorham of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu.

According to New Scientist, the balloon, which holds antennae, would go up for a month and scan thousands of miles of antarctic air looking for high-energy particles coming down from space. After two flights over more than two years, the results only yielded brief moments of background noise but nothing else.

During the balloon’s third flight, scientists decided to look over the data from the previous flights again — specifically at the random noises it recorded. What they discovered, according to New Scientist, was something impossible. The signal wasn’t coming down from space but up from the ground.

“That means that these particles are traveling back in time and could be evidence of a parallel universe,” Tech Times reported.

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CNN

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Why the confusion?
Recent articles by other media outlets about some of the unusual data picked up by ANITA have conflated theories by physicists outside the experiment, with that of researchers using the instrument. One of those theories involves the idea of a parallel universe. Gorham noted, however, that the team of researchers directly involved did not posit this theory.
What's exciting about the quest to understand neutrinos, strange particles detected on Earth that are prevalent in the universe, is that it's ongoing and evolving — and has only just begun, really. While it may take decades to truly understand what they can tell us, scientists believe that tracing neutrinos back to their sources can shed light on their origins in the distant universe.
Some physicists say this is leading to a new era of neutrino astronomy. Strange as they are, neutrinos can help us understand the universe in new ways. Here's why.

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