Basically every angle on Stranger Things has been exhausted until the new season inevitably drops, but here’s something to ponder: is the Upside Down… real?????
The answer is yes, obviously. United States Secretary of Energy Ernest Moriz, who is a nuclear physicist by trade and the top government official when it comes to energy policy and research, popped up on Chelsea Handler‘s show to confirm precisely that, in his own kind of way.
Handler asked Moriz about the spooky secret Department of Energy building in the show. “On [Stranger Things], they have a department of energy and they spend a lot of time investigating a parallel universe. What can you tell us about that?”
Moriz stopped short of confirming that a terrifying parallel universe inhabited by a weird monster is actually real, but he did throw us a bone.
I can tell you first of all that I have never seen it, but I’m aware of it. Secondly, I believe this fictional D.O.E. laboratory was operating in the 1980s. You can draw any inference you need from that. Third, I will note that actually we do work in parallel universes. We are also a big supporter of very basic science and that includes trying to understand the basic particles of nature and the structure of the universe. Theoretical physics … looks at things like higher dimensions than three dimensions, and parallel universes.
There we go. All the proof we need.
Source: YouTube.
Photo: Stranger Things.
