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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