[IncPen]

"Analysis, Spock?"

[tictoc]

The Perils of Modern Living

Well up above the tropostrata
There is a region stark and stellar
Where, on a streak of anti-matter
Lived Dr. Edward Anti-Teller.

Remote from Fusion's origin,
He lived unguessed and unawares
With all his antikith and kin,
And kept macassars on his chairs.

One morning, idling by the sea,
He spied a tin of monstrous girth
That bore three letters: A. E. C.
Out stepped a visitor from Earth.

Then, shouting gladly o'er the sands,
Met two who in their alien ways
Were like as lentils. Their right hands
Clasped, and the rest was gamma rays.

-- Harold P. Furth

[SubSailor]

I always thought mirror matter referred to the remnants of a popped zit.

[LiteKeeper]

later

[Desdemona]

Mirror, Mirror
on the wall,
Who has the flakiest theory
of them all?

[Pete]

for every known particle there is a mirror particle that restores the cosmic balance. [insert bong noises here]

[Consort]

..Mirror Potato.

[Paradox]

This has been well known for a long time now, in fact, NASA produced a documentary (cleverly disguised as a sci-fi movie) many decades ago about it.

[TC Rider]

Its close scrutiny of Eros revealed many strange features - such as flat-bottomed craters filled with a peculiar bluish dust, and a puzzling lack of small craters.

It must be 'The Watcher', there is no other explanation.

[okiedust]

FYI, ping.

[Billthedrill]

A mirror universe, populated by matter similar to our own but weirder. Dang it, there's an Algore joke in there begging to be let out.

[JennysCool]

elementary particles display a preference for left over right.

They don't call 'em elementary for nothin'!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

In a way, the Universe is left-handed.

Somehow, I feel validated.

[JennysCool]

[Poohbah]

Mirror matter is not anti-matter, it is altogether weirder. It is somehow a "reflection" of normal matter, a sort of parallel series of particles required to restore the balance of the Universe.

I thought Anakin Skywalker was supposed to do that...

[The Great Satan]

Is this the episode where Kirk gets in touch with his feminine side and starts mincing around the Enterprise, hissing cattily at Yeoman Rand?

[2Jedismom]

This guy looks kinda like a hobbit...mostly likely of Stoor ancestory. No Harfoot or Fallohide had any trace of a beard. Puddifoot?

[Doctor Stochastic]

Robert Foot: a LegEnd in his own time.

[longshadow]

"mirror matter" symmetry ping....

Any thoughts on whether or not the Aussie scientists are on to something, or have they been smoking the wrong variety of mushroom?

[Carry_Okie]

Wormwood the invisible star?