Physical mysteries: Is the universe multidimensional?
23. 10. 2024deset, eleven or even 26 - or who offers more? It almost seems as if physicists are racing v number of dimensions. But how do they look like? It is very difficult to imagine that besides three spatial dimensions up and down forward and backward and left-right, there are others dimension.
Albert Einstein was the first to realize that you will need to add the time axis as the fourth dimension to the XYZ coordinate system. This 4-dimensional space-time was a revolution in physics.
However neither another dimension has not been experimentally proven. But this does not prevent physicists from adding one dimension after another. Different theories offer different numbers: String theory arrived s ten dimensions, quantum loop gravitation suggests eleven dimensions a Theories string with boson even 26.
It would be great useful, if physicists agreed on a specific number of dimensions and clarified the impact of this knowledge on the knowledge of the world. But so far is not well defined nor the nature of the fourth dimension - time! In addition, it may not be linear in all circumstances.