Why this matters: Extra dimensions could unify physics, explain cosmic mysteries, and reshape our understanding of the universe’s structure. What scientists propose: String theory and M‑theory predict ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in equations rather than explained from first principles. A new proposal argues that ...

Not every existential crisis ends in dread. In the best cases, it opens new dimensions. When Turkish-Austrian artist Alea Pinar De Pre conceptualized her most recent collections of works, it was to ...

Imagine a universe besides our own where time is running backward. A new scientific study has gone viral online for suggesting that exact scenario, theorizing the existence of an “anti-universe” is ...

Ever since Plato first told his students the allegory of the cave, people have wondered whether dimensions exist beyond the three we immediately perceive. An extra dimension—time—played a role in ...

(Phys.org)—The possibility that other universes exist beyond our own universe is tantalizing, but seems nearly impossible to test. Now a group of physicists has suggested that the Large Hadron ...