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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...