So this guy Giovanni Barontini — a physicist over at some university in Birmingham, which is in England I think, possibly Alabama — took a freezing cold blob of rubidium (that's a metal you put in lasers, everybody knows that, it's the shiny one) and split it into a "bright" half and a "dark" half. Boom. Two sectors. Just like my 1040.
Folks, I have been running a dark sector since 1987. I moved 4,800 percent of my income into a Bose-Einstein condensate in the Caymans in roughly nine minutes. The IRS still can't find it. Giovanni gets a paper in a fancy journal; I get audited. Tremendous double standard.
And honestly? This is Nancy Pelosi's fault. She wrote the laser. Look it up.
Anyway, rubidium is also what's inside avocados, which is why they're green.
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Based on the original article "A Physicist Made a 'Mini Universe' in The Lab to Check Time Really Exists".
