OF ALL ideas, string theory — physicists» candidate for a «theory of everything» — seems impossible to squeeze into a small book, even if there are
extra hidden dimensions.
Not exact matches
If
extra dimensions exist, undiscovered particles and forces could be
hiding within them.
The three familiar
dimensions plus time make four, meaning six or seven «
extra» spatial
dimensions must lie
hidden, shrunk down so small we can't see them.
Particle physicist Argyris Nicolaidis of the University of Thessaloniki in Greece suggests that neutrinos might take another kind of shortcut, one that passes through an
extra,
hidden dimension.
Alternatively, dark matter could be the hyperspatial footprint of particles zipping through a
hidden, neighboring
dimension — except no convincing evidence of
extra dimensions has emerged at the LHC or any other accelerator.
To give you just a glimpse of the convictions involved, we asked Krauss, whose intriguing book
Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of
Extra Dimensions, From Plato to String Theory and Beyond is coming out in October, to riff a bit on what he's thinking these days.
Leah Crane suggests that gravity may be «leaking» from our own observable universe into tiny
hidden extra dimensions.
In response, string theorists posited the existence of seven
extra dimensions that are
hidden from us.
A slap of pain tand an
extra dimension can't
hide the threadbare plot and archaic gameplay mechanics lurking beneath the surface.