Wednesday, February 18, 2015

M-theory suggests that space-time has 11 dimensions

M-theory suggests that space–time has 11 dimensions, seven of which are "rolled up" to below the subatomic level. Physicists have speculated that the graviton, a particle thought to carry the force of gravity, may "leak" into the fifth or higher dimensions, which would explain how gravity is significantly weaker than the other three fundamental forces.
In 1993 the physicist Gerard 't Hooft put forward the holographic principle, which explains that the information about an extra dimension is visible as a curvature in a spacetime with one fewer dimension. For example, holograms are three-dimensional pictures placed on a two-dimensional surface, which gives the image a curvature when the observer moves. Similarly, in general relativity, the fourth dimension is manifested in observable three dimensions as the curvature path of a moving infinitesimal (test) particle. Hooft has speculated that the fifth dimension is really the spacetime fabric.
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Most of us live in a 3 dimensional world. When we add time we get a fourth dimensional world. But, if 4 dimensional "Space-time"also has 11 dimensions "rolled up" below the subatomic level (What are we to do useful with that information)?

So, obviously a context for even speaking about this for the average person hasn't arisen yet even in popular culture worldwide.

However, the way things like this usually arise is through the graphics in movies. Because "one picture is worth 1000 words". So, it is usually in a visual context the average person usually grasps initially concepts like this one.

And so as more comic books become movies this likely is how people will start to understand all this more on into the future.


 

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