"Scientists are
searching for a mirror universe. It could be sitting right in front of you."
In a series of experiments she plans to run at Oak Ridge this summer, Broussard will send a beam of subatomic particles down a 50-foot tunnel,
past a powerful magnet and into an impenetrable wall. If the setup is
just right — and if the universe cooperates — some of those particles
will transform into mirror-image versions of themselves, allowing them
to tunnel right through the wall. And if that happens, Broussard will
have uncovered the first evidence of a mirror world right alongside our
own.
We'll know we're in real trouble if we find Spock-with-a-goatee.