As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s ...

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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 who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Humans are unable to access all the dimensions. As we live in a 3D world, a new theory suggests the fourth dimension is the ...