2006-07-09 09:14:16 · 6 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It looks like there are maybe possibly more than 11 dimensions depending on what version of string theory you ascribe to (m-theory, etc). The reason we dont experience some dimensions is because they are wrapped up very tightly I believe in something called manifolds.
2006-07-09 11:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by daseinpbc 2 · 7⤊ 5⤋
Big Bang
Unlike more conventional views of creation in modern physics, that are Ex nihilo, the M-Theory vision, although not yet complete, is of the whole observable universe being one of many super expanded 4 dimentional brane of an 11 dimention existence. While branes of alternative universes exist "near us" their formulation of physical laws may differ from our own, as their number of dimentions. It is currently believed that a collision of "universe branes" somehow compacted enough energy to form what established physicists called the Big Bang.
2006-07-09 21:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by Chris C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that I've noticed. Seriously, they think that there may be other dimensions, 'too small to see'. Or on some 'brane'. As Sherlock Holmes said, "Now that I know it I shall do my best to forget it; it does not make the least difference to me or my work."
2006-07-09 16:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
String theory postulates 17, although most of them are rolled up around each other.
Are there really 17? More? Less? We don't know yet.
2006-07-09 16:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some scientists were saying eleven or thereabouts last time I checked. It gets a little technical for me.
2006-07-09 16:29:54 · answer #5 · answered by tkron31 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume by your question you are counting time as a dimention of its own, while most would consider it a quasi-dimention. But that's probably all the other theorized dimentions are, too...
2006-07-09 17:25:50 · answer #6 · answered by Eric 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋