Are There Extra Dimensions? (In Search of String Theory Part 5) - Ask a Spaceman!

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  • @chrissscottt
    @chrissscottt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I discovered a new dimension when I moved from L to XL. I am now endeavouring to return to my former dimension.

    • @Pyriold
      @Pyriold 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Dimensional travel is surely dangerous, take care. And don't go all the way to flatland.

  • @jamesaberson8733
    @jamesaberson8733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "and math games are fun, right?" (shaking head no). You crack me up. I literally laughed out loud. I share your cynical sense of humor. Thank you!

  • @ashleynoel
    @ashleynoel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    7:27- I loved the analogy about circumnavigating an extra dimension🌠

  • @irissoler1811
    @irissoler1811 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your channel is so GREAT!! I literally took the time to like & subscribe!

  • @daffidavit
    @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dr. Brian Greene wrote about the Kaluza-Klein theory which lead to string theory in his books on the subject. See: "The Hidden Reality" and "The Elegant Universe".
    The Kaluza-Klein theory is classical in nature and is not necessarily a quantum theory. It tries to explain the unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism built around the fifth dimension as a precursor to string theory. Source: Wikipedia.
    Dr. Greene in his books gives an example of a long rope stretched horizontally from far away where a worm is crawling along the rope. From far away, all we see is a thin line stretched out by two poles from where a rope is attached on both ends. But as we move ever closer we finally see the worm crawling from one side to the other along the entire circumference of the rope. The worm can crawl all around the rope as it travels. As we move very close we can see the "extra" dimensions from the worm's perspective. But from far away we only see a single line. The Kaluza-Klein theory was the original inspiration for String Theory, but it took a long time before anybody made the connection. I was impressed with Brian Greene's books when I first read them many years ago, but now there are several experts who question String Theory. At this point, I don't know who nor what to believe about multiple dimensions. Until the experts can find some communion with the classical world and the quantum world, I'm just a bystander waiting for the next chapter to unfold in our book of so-called "reality".

  • @zertilus
    @zertilus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow I loves the extra dimensions compared to tiny rollers spinning around, it's a very interesting way to think about it

  • @johugra1
    @johugra1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the best explanation of String theory and higher dimensions I have seen so far. Looking forward to the next part. Trying to understand the concept of a circular dimension. What values can it have? Why is it not just a straight dimension of say minus 1 to plus 1.

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The real interval from - 1 to +1, considering that the point - 1 is equivalent to +1, that's homeomorphic to S^1, the circle. The same can be done in n dimensions to obtain S^1×S^1×...×S^1 which is a n-torus.

    • @johugra1
      @johugra1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelchamorro953 Thank you for replying. Unfortunately I do not understand your reply.

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johugra1 Imagine a segment in which, when you reach one of its bounds, you appear in the other. That construction is completely equivalent to a circular line. You have to choose a dimension to be compactified or be infinite because you don't want to find a wall while you're moving through that dimension.

    • @johugra1
      @johugra1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelchamorro953 Thank you Miguel. That is much clearer and rather fascinating. I don't want to waste too much of your time so only one more question, why not have a finite dimension that is straight?

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@johugra1 You could have it, but it's what I said, in that direction there would be an edge, you have to specify and justify what happens there. Another point is that in that dimension homogeneity is lost, because things would be different depending on your distance to the boundary.

  • @larrybeckham6652
    @larrybeckham6652 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maybe a playlist for this multipart series? Trouble finding part 2

  • @MsScoooper
    @MsScoooper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks Paul!! You rock old friend

  • @wulphstein
    @wulphstein 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Strings are not the fundamental building blocks of spacetime, mass, energy, momentum, position, etc. But try Planck action points that start at a point, and expand at the speed of light.

  • @constpegasus
    @constpegasus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Paul.

  • @dustinking2965
    @dustinking2965 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember reading that if there were extra dimensions, the gravitational waves from merging black holes we would get would be less powerful, because some of the waves would go along the direction of these extra dimensions. But when we measured gravitational waves, they were the strength we'd expect from 3 spatial dimensions. Does that mean that there actually aren't extra dimensions, or is there some reason this doesn't actually work?

  • @sebastianschulz6531
    @sebastianschulz6531 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Would extra dimensions help describe why we observe quatum particles as waves or clouds of statistically most probable location, while they move quite predictabley to an observer who can detect all dimensions?

  • @sanjuansteve
    @sanjuansteve 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Since we know we’re in a sea of dark matter that doesn’t interact with us (baryonic matter)(but for gravity), could it be considered to be on another dimension? Can you imagine the possibility that there could be a dark matter universe(s) occupying the same space as us?

  • @wulphstein
    @wulphstein 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the upper limit on the number of photons (bosons) that can be stacked on top of one another? I'm assuming that it would become a black hole. So why didn't the big bang become a black hole?

  • @dougjohnson3229
    @dougjohnson3229 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good stuff.

  • @jamespong6588
    @jamespong6588 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    String theory is the first example of how the media can sometimes dominate and gaslight even science

  • @WeRemainFaceless
    @WeRemainFaceless 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Maybe, the small curled up extra dimension isnt actually a dimension at all, but instead, lorentzian wormholes. They cant be seen or interacted with, simply because any energy used to qualify them collapses them?

  • @planetmchanic6299
    @planetmchanic6299 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The universe does have way more dimensions. Try taking a 4' string and tying a ball on one end and spin it around. Then make another one and spin two around at once. Then make two more a spin 4 around and try not to let the strings tangled up. Infinite Hilbert spaces.

  • @Zaped75
    @Zaped75 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you move around dimensions,It be the plank particles that move around. so It be like a wire the atoms move around? The wire what make up space and time?
    Pulse ligo show there were no extra dimensions? I alway thought of it like sand small on the bottom bigger as you go up.The smaller pop up from the bottom by stealing energy from the lower levels.If there a level above us it could be what dark energy and dark matter.dark energy be what being what we lose making the lower move up and dark matter the gravity from the higher level. I like to daydream of how space and time mite work probably off i never study string theory just from what i got on shows like yours and others. put them together and watch it in my mind.

  • @cheesypotat0es
    @cheesypotat0es 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's fun listening to geniuses talk

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dr. Sutter, in my opinion is a person who was born with the gift of having a high I.Q. He also has the ability to explain difficult scientific questions to the average person who can understand them easily. That is also a gift.

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@woodypigeon It will if you are an ordinary mortal.

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@woodypigeon Well then, I'm jealous of you if you are beyond ordinary.

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@woodypigeon No, but I'm not going to continue this conversation because the good professor has a relevant scientific channel. I'm not willing to let this conversation devolve. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but now that I see you are playing with me, so long pal.

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@woodypigeon OK, I get it. Be well and LLAP.

  • @MikeLisanke
    @MikeLisanke 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What do you mean by a small 'dimension'? Because you didn't describe how a dimension as in 3-shape can be 'small'. If we think of dimensions as a direction not a size, then how can the adjective 'small' be applied?

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It means that the radius of the circles are of length of plank order. If you travel through one of that dimensions, you'll be at the same point when you walk a distance of a plank length order.

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      As I answered to a fellow above, you can generalise this kind of compactification. To a 3 dimensional one, you can imagine a box. Then say that opposite faces are the same surfaces, if you climb, you appear from the floor and so on, this is a 3-torus. Maybe it is not clear, but it have three holes! They are innacesible, but you can detect them indirectly using ropes

    • @MikeLisanke
      @MikeLisanke 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelchamorro953 My comment was about getting this said in an otherwise well generalized layman's discussion. I don't think small was as clearly summarized in an otherwise good video on the subject.

  • @infinitemonkey917
    @infinitemonkey917 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do these miniature dimensions suck up gravity making it a weak force ?

  • @sebastianschulz6531
    @sebastianschulz6531 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kaluza toyed with a 5 dim spacetime and somehow electromagnetism could be explained by it, yet some inconsistencies and a lack of merits of the theory led to it being dropped.
    I smelled Dr. Pavel would mention him.....
    The math Einstein used for General Relativity has been around for half a century before Einstein found a way to apply it. Who knew that this math would find a physical meaning?

  • @nias2631
    @nias2631 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seems like a model overfit. The number of Kaluza-Klein shapes is heading for countably infinite. Seems suspicious.

  • @marjanp
    @marjanp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "... but we just haven't seen them yet." Sounds like a religion.

  • @esratakter4085
    @esratakter4085 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there anything exist that can count gravity of space

  • @Max_Flashheart
    @Max_Flashheart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does Schrodinger's Cat like to play with String Theory?

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's cute, the cat with the ball of "string" theory.

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait, what does a universe with 3 time dimensions look like?

  • @esratakter4085
    @esratakter4085 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you think 🤔 really you can bend light in earth?are those related to each other light and gravity????

  • @dworkeen
    @dworkeen 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sutter knocks me out! I'm 72 years old and only now, assuming that Sutter isn't a fraud which he don't sound like, do I get to understand bits of string theory - halle - fucking - lujah!

  • @stridedeck
    @stridedeck 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Instead of being extra dimensions curled up at each planck location, why not it be some other force?

    • @mwaringmlw
      @mwaringmlw 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it's the same as calling a male chicken a rooster. The extra dimensions give a place for the math to hide so you can more easily tie seemingly unconnected phenomenon in a larger framework. So nothing like calling a male chicken a rooster. But if you remember that dimensions are set at 90° from all others, you can play with complex numbers which automatically create ratios of the constituent values which for regular intervals, nets you a constant value. Dimensionality is a new perspective, literally.

    • @stridedeck
      @stridedeck 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mwaringmlw I wouldn't classify dimensionality as a new perspective, more like fudging the equations. Fudging the equations suggests that there is something outside these equations that science has yet to observed. Somewhat similar to the paradox of information processing systems and matter: which came first, or are they just different sides of the same coin which is this force?

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The point of extra dimensions is that when you start constructing string theory you say there's n dimensions. Then, when you do some calculations it appears that n=to certain integer number or the theory is inconsistent. The theory tells you how many dimensions it has to have.

    • @stridedeck
      @stridedeck 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelchamorro953 Yes, that is another way of fudging. String theory is an attempt of equating oranges to apples and to do that an intermediary number needs to be put in. This intermediary number is not in either equation, and it is a number that string theory inserted. What I am suggesting is that there is some underlying mechanism, undiscovered, that unites the oranges with the apples.

  • @ZeroOskul
    @ZeroOskul 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:12
    ideas that were percolating 100 years ago? Try ideas that have been percolating since human first philosophiozed.
    Communication has been around at least as long as philosophy.
    The objective of communication is to express ideas from mind to mind while losing as little information in the process as possible.
    Ideas that have been percolating since the dawn of communication influence all that we do.
    Yeah, not impressive or deep at all, is it?

  • @myun7853
    @myun7853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    math games are fun lmao

  • @jailhousephilosopher3309
    @jailhousephilosopher3309 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is sooo refreshing to escape the flerf and creationist unsubstantiated arguments to hear truly thought provoking hypothesis' and inferred ideas based in reality.😊 It is nice to hear real science instead of "nah ah, my eye sees different so physics be wrong and math sucks, so it wrong too. Evidence, experimentation, magic? Look at the trees, god had to did it! Not magic, it's religion!" And dunning-krueger running rampant!😳

  • @ZeroOskul
    @ZeroOskul 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:21
    String theory came onto the scene as an attempt to solve Strong force.
    It failed.
    It did not come onto the scene as a failed attempt to solve Strong Force.

    • @296jacqi
      @296jacqi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Strings? No, you’re splitting hairs.

    • @ZeroOskul
      @ZeroOskul 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@296jacqi No, string "theory".

  • @liavofra
    @liavofra 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello Thank you for the video, is the speed of light is a constant?
    There is no argument about the speed that fluctuates between psychical mediums, But for example, we assume that the speed of light near Alpha Centauri is the same as the speed of light here on Earth. what I'm saying is we just assuming it, we don't know about that right, do we?
    The facts are that we cannot know what is going on everywhere in the universe, so we cannot determine that the speed of light (electromagnetic wave speed) is constant!
    *As a matter of principle, this should be taken into account, since it is logical from a lack of evidence!
    We can assume different possibilities, (just like we assuming that it is constant), what if light is emitted from someplace near us.
    maybe it emitted from the center of the earth.
    and maybe is emitted from life. maybe there is million more possibility?
    maybe after you laugh for a few seconds you will maybe realize that this is not a completely unbelievable idea as it can dismiss some paradoxes in Quantum Physics
    science it is not a game in make believe!
    What I am saying is that we have no way of checking it out!
    If we only checked in one place in the entire universe! It's kind of ridiculous to say that.
    So this is actually a question of right or wrong!
    So basically because we can't be sure about it, regardless of right, or wrong! and so do about 50% of the models as if the speed of light is not constant!
    Love and Light

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      When you have a BIG working theory, you have to assume its bases it entirelly. If you remove one of its base blocks, the whole building collapses because of contradictions. You are speaking of the principle that says that physic laws are homogeneous in all spacetime. If it were untrue it would mean that we are in a privileged zone of the universe and all far away predictions we have done and tested have been by good luck. It's a bit uncredible, isn't it true?

    • @liavofra
      @liavofra 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelchamorro953 Thank you for your response,
      You say we have a strong and good building (the standard model).
      Although I hear every day about a new crisis in cosmology, and physics.
      this is actually a simple question of right or wrong!
      basically because we can't be sure about it, regardless of right or wrong! and do about 50% of the models if the speed of light is not constant!
      And maybe one day we will discover that Aristotle was right, and the speed of light is the result of life, mind, consciousness.
      who knows?
      I love science despite my criticism.

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@liavofra First: Periodists don't know anything about science, they usually misunderstand and badly tell news. Don't believe them, they say lots of silly stuff.
      Second: Light is an electromagnetic wave, that has nothing to do with life, your propositions don't have a theoretical frame that support them, while the constant speed of light is highly prooved in lots of experiments. If it weren't universal, GPS technology wouldn't work at all.

    • @liavofra
      @liavofra 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miguelchamorro953 first: I disagree with you, these are scientists who claim there is a lot of anomaly in the standard model.
      The second thing: You claim to have lots of proof (like GPS) and many more proofs that the speed of light is constant.
      I ask you where we tested it, if it has only been tested in one place in the entire universe it's like we haven't done anything.
      I will give you an anthology out of scientific logic: we have just examined one place in the entire universe and found life in it, does that mean that in the whole universe there is life!
      As scientists, we say that there is no life. Until proven otherwise, right?
      According to this scientific logic, we need to say that the speed of light is not constant until proven otherwise.
      Interestingly, how do you know that the speed of light is not produced by life, mind, consciousness.
      Love and Light

    • @liavofra
      @liavofra 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@woodypigeon I was thinking this was clear?
      if you have tons of evidence from ONE PLACE IN THE ALL VISIBLE UNIVERSE!!!!
      You still don't know if the speed of light is the same everywhere.
      you have tons of evidence That there is life in the universe that you have explored in one place,
      So science concludes that there is an extraterrestrial life?
      Answer NO!
      it's just the same logic.

  • @NothingMaster
    @NothingMaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    As quaintly goofy as String Theory has become, I’m utterly surprised they haven’t come up with multiple extra time dimensions! 10 curled up time dimensions is what String Theory is missing right now to complete the glorious circus of unfalsifiable nonsense.

  • @tomblanco8234
    @tomblanco8234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Now for something completely different... Dude! Turn off the auto-focus! Your camera stays in focus worse than my mind. And I have ADD. Love your videos, when I can manage to pay attention to what you are saying instead of watching your face go in and out of focus. Not kidding. Thanks.

  • @TeethToothman
    @TeethToothman ปีที่แล้ว

    🪐🐊🪐

  • @the3dom
    @the3dom 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is anyone (serious) considered extra time dimensions?

    • @MagruderSpoots
      @MagruderSpoots 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hawking tried to develop an extra dimension of time in the imaginary direction (complex time) so that the big bang wouldn't have an actual beginning at time zero. It didn't work though.

    • @miguelchamorro953
      @miguelchamorro953 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Anti-De Sitter space can only be viewed embedded in an hyperspace of two time dimensions plus 3 spatial, it is very used in superstring theory. The problem is that, though Ads space has only one time dimension, it is circular. The past and the future are the same! That's problematic...

  • @pamelaweinberger3373
    @pamelaweinberger3373 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    & your hilarious also! Lol! Anyway, I've just recently discovered within the last 3 months that I am interestede in alternative Diminsions, hopefully I said & spelled that right. My question is, I thought I could have possibly found myself Inside another Diminsion, & I was able to see different, (Layers) for lack of a better word,.. of different people, They were just a few feet away from me, & if I would have done it, (& i almost did), I could have reached out & touched them. I spoke to them, quietly & calmly, & they never answered, but they stood still & they were all Looking around, like maybe they could sence something was strange, or just not quite right. Or maybe they could see me, & just couldn't a good grasp on what was going on.?? Never the less I did not scare me what's do ever, & normally I would be creeped out by something like this. didn't a know what it was? It was fasinating singing to me , so I went ahead & went to sleep, (passed out in hair from exhaustion. When are some up with my head on my lap, I was looking right at them. The

  • @BharathBharath-mq3zx
    @BharathBharath-mq3zx ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't believe that there are only 12 dimensions I believe that there are many infinity dimensions are exist in space we can't explore the space in life it's impossible