An early attempt to explain the concept of extra dimensions came in 1884 with the publication of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland: ...

I just started the Elegant Universe which is about string/superstring theory. Now, I haven't gotten that deep in, but I've looked up some of it on Wikipedia, and according to what I can see, there has ...

Around the end of the last century, there was a first boom in superstring theory, and it was hyped in the public eye as the ...

We don’t know very much about our universe. We’re fairly certain it exists, but we don’t know how it got here, how long it’s been here, or how big it is. Heck, we don’t even know if our universe is ...

The goal of elementary particle physics is to achieve a unified understanding of fundamental forces (gravitational, electromagnetic and nuclear) and elementary particlesin terms of concise and ...

When I was in my twenties, while on the Shinkansen heading to a business trip, my boss told me something like this."The universe is stable at 11 dimensions."...Huh?The universe has 11 dimensions?To ...

Superstring theory is an attempt to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory by modelling them as vibrations of tiny supersymmetric strings. 'Superstring theory' is ...

No. And testing for them is... problematic. Recently, there was some hope that short-range gravitational measurements (like, within a cm), might show deviation from longer-range measurements, giving ...