SPACE AND ITS DIMENSIONS

Secret dimensions

It is a pretty clear fact known to all of us that we live in a space of three dimensions –a large ‘closet’ of height, width and length.

Also we can consider time as an additional, fourth dimension, as Einstein declared. But just as we have acquainted ourselves to the idea of four dimensions, some theorists  have made predictions crazier than even Einstein had imagined.

                                                            

String theory interestingly suggests there are six more dimensions in existence, but are somehow hidden from human senses. They could be all around us, but curled up to be so small that we have never realized their existence.

Beyond the third dimension???

                                    

Some string theorists have taken this idea further to explain a mystery of gravity that has puzzled physicists for some time – why is gravity so much weaker than the other fundamental forces? Does its carrier- “the graviton” exist and if yes , where? The primary concept is that we do not feel gravity’s full influence in the everyday world. Gravity may appear weak only because its force is being shared with other spatial dimensions.

To find out whether these ideas are just wild imaginations or an incredible leap in understanding the space, will require experimental evidence. But this will surely take time…(and money obviously)…

High-energy experiments could open the inconspicuous dimensions just enough to allow 

particles to move between the normal 3D world and other dimensions. This could be 

obvious in the sudden disappearance of a particle into a hidden dimension, or the 

unexpected appearance of a particle in an experiment. Right now , we can’t say anything 

about it. What we can do is to wait until our scientists find the ultimate truth!