For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space might be only a small slice of ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time might be only ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that UB physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010. They suggested that ...

Physicists explore whether the universe hides extra dimensions. These tiny, curled-up or warped dimensions could explain ...

String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the constants, all the things under a single ...

In Edwin's Abbot's classic book Flatland, the narrator, a Square, is a gentlemen who lives in Flatland, a world having only two dimensions, and everyone is a flat shape or line segment. Near the ...

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And ...