The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to ...

The book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott explores the concept of physical dimensions through characters who encounter higher-dimensional beings. The protagonist, “A. Square,” ...

Extra dimensions may be required to explain how gravity worked in the early universe — and led to the conditions we experience today. This is the conclusion of a pair of researchers from Japan, who ...

Up to now, humans have only been able to observe four dimensions in the universe – height, length, width and time. But beyond these dimensions, collectively known as 'spacetime', there may be more ...

Physicists and mathematicians who think about higher-dimensional spaces are, if they allow their interest to somehow become public knowledge, inevitably asked: "How can you visualize more than three ...

Lisa Randall, one of the world's most influential physicists, explains why we need more than three dimensions to understand the cosmos Scientific progress always entails an almost contradictory set of ...

THE Big Bang and black holes share an incredible trait: the singularity. Experimental scientists are consequently now speculating the entire universe in fact exists beyond the event horizon of a huge ...