For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space might be only a small slice of ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And ...

The geometry of space, the setting in which physical laws operate, may hold clues to some of the biggest unanswered questions in fundamental physics. The underlying structure of spacetime itself could ...

String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … everything. All the forces, all the particles, all the constants, all the things under a single ...

Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that UB physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010. They suggested that ...

Imagine a universe where you could point a spaceship in one direction and eventually return to where you started. If our universe were a finite donut, then such movements would be possible and ...

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 ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

New anomalies discovered in cosmic background radiation suggests our universe smacks into pocket dimensions as it grows. We have countless movies, TV shows, comic books, and video games preparing us ...

Physicists explore whether the universe hides extra dimensions. These tiny, curled-up or warped dimensions could explain ...

For more than a century, physicists have suspected that the familiar three dimensions of space and one of time might be only ...