When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. String theory is a purported theory of everything that physicists hope will one day explain … ...

The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Why does our universe look the way it does? In particular, why do we only experience three ...

It can be tempting to assume that your intuitions about three-dimensional space carry over to higher-dimensional realms. After all, adding another dimension simply creates a new direction to move ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article ...