News tagged with extra dimensions
Tackling the big questions -- approaching a revolution in our understanding of gravity
Nov 05, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The way galaxies move through the cosmos has recently begun to baffle scientists. Even when the gravitational theories of Newton and Einstein are taken into account, the universe is expanding and galaxies ...
Qubits and Branes Share Surprising Features
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What do black holes and entangled particles have in common? Until about a year ago, physicists thought that the two entities existed in completely separate worlds. Then, in 2007, physicist Michael Duff from ...
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Particle accelerator may reveal shape of alternate dimensions
Jan 30, 2008 |
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When the world's most powerful particle accelerator starts up later this year, exotic new particles may offer a glimpse of the existence and shapes of extra dimensions.
Physicists and engineers search for new dimension
Mar 10, 2008 |
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The universe as we currently know it is made up of three dimensions of space and one of time, but researchers in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech are exploring ...
Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale
Mar 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Usually, we think of spacetime as being four-dimensional, with three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. However, this Euclidean perspective is just one of many possible multi-dimensional ...
SLAC Physicists Develop Test For String Theory*
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Feb 08, 2006 |
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*Under Certain Conditions String theory solves many of the questions wracking the minds of physicists, but it has one major flaw — there are currently no known methods to test it. SLAC scientists have found a way ...
Astronauts get extra moving time at space station
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Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The astronauts aboard the shuttle-station complex are getting some extra moving time.
A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws
May 15, 2007 |
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For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity ...
Physicists find way to 'see' extra dimensions
Feb 02, 2007 |
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Peering backward in time to an instant after the big bang, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised an approach that may help unlock the hidden shapes of alternate dimensions of the universe.
Physicists create BlackMax to search for dimensions in space at the Large Hadron Collider
Nov 07, 2008 |
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A team of theoretical and experimental physicists, with participants from Case Western Reserve University, have designed a new black hole simulator called BlackMax to search for evidence that extra dimensions might exist ...
Einstein Equations
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Feb 16, 2006 |
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Throughout the years mathematicians and physicists have been finding various solutions to Einstein’s equations. These solutions have helped scientists better understand the nature of our cosmos, as well develop ...
Physicists say universe evolution favored three and seven dimensions
Sep 28, 2005 |
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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 are undetectable. The ...
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