Snipped from Wired.com.

Scientists are getting closer and closer to whatever is on the “other side”. We have learned from all kinds of things from mathematical anomalies — string theory, dark matter, dark energy, extra dimensions, Higgs bosons … But, unfortunately, we have no actual proof of any of this. Well, we are now getting closer to peering “through the looking glass”.

Scientist at the South Pole have noticed something … well, not normal. They have discovered a strange electron interaction that mimics what has been postulated by dark matter theories. It happens when WIMPs or weak interacting massive particles, fancy name for dark matter, interacts or pops into our world (the electron, proton, visible world stuff).

Without going into serious particle and quantum physics, this means that, if what they saw was what they saw, these WIMPs are popping into our visible universe through extra dimensions. But, these extra dimensions are not like our up-down, left-right, they are folded on top of themselves curled up and so small that only electrons, positrons and/or photons can exist in them. This being way beyond the capability of any kind of technology to observe its existence.

This is very exciting for the geeks among us, but of course I am not one of them. Ahem, anyways. Here is a small portion of the article:

John Wefel of Louisiana State University and colleagues report in Nature Wednesday that they could have detected “Kaluza-Klein” electron-positron pairs resulting from the annihilation of these WIMPS.

The KK particles are predicted by multiple-dimension theories of the universe and have long-been a leading candidate as the substance of dark matter. The new discovery then, if confirmed, would provide evidence that the fabric of space-time has many “compact” dimensions beyond the four that humans perceive.

“If the Kaluza–Klein annihilation explanation proves to be correct, this will necessitate a fuller investigation of such multidimensional spaces, with potentially important implications for our understanding of the Universe,” the authors conclude.

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