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Asked by coolios (477brna35) to Lydia, Ciarán on 17 Nov 2014.
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Lydia Bach answered on 17 Nov 2014:
Hey coolios,
I obviously believe in the three dimensions and time we can experience… But theoretical physicists describe many more dimensions. Some think there are 10 others that there are 11 or 26…
Like they think that some particles like fermions travel clockwise using 10 dimensions and bosons travel counterclockwise in 26 dimensions. This all has to do with string theory, which I think only physicists understand properly!
Right now there are a lot of theories out there, and I am not sure which one is right – but I do think that there are probably more dimensions than the ones we know and experience!
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Ciarán O'Brien answered on 17 Nov 2014:
I’m not sure what to think about different dimensions yet. It felt a bit weird when I was told that time is kind of another dimensions, it’s a very hard thing to get your head around.
From what little I’ve read on the subject, extra dimensions does make sense for some of the weird things scientists see at the subatomic scale. There are lots ideas going around, like string theory.
The problem is that with a lot of these ideas, we don’t have any way to find out if they’re accurate yet. We have the same problem with Einstein’s theories, in fact it took until 2011 for scientists to figure out how to test some of the effects of gravity that Einstein’s maths predicted (the Gravity Probe B experiment, very complicated stuff that took incredible engineering and precision). And without any way to test these ideas, you can’t really say if they’re true or false.
So, long story short: I’m open to the idea of multiple dimensions, they make some sense. But without any hard evidence, I don’t put too much stock in them.
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