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Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible field, but from the hidden geometry of space itself. Instead of treating extra ...

In a hypertorus model of the Universe, motion in a straight line will return you to your original location, even in an uncurved (flat) spacetime. The Universe could also be closed and positively ...

We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it ...

Florida physicist has suggested that two of the biggest mysteries in particle physics and astrophysics — the existence of extra time and space dimensions and the composition of an invisible cosmic ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something particles simply possess, a built-in feature explained by the Higgs field but not fully illuminated by it. A new wave of research is now ...

Physicists wonder if our universe contains hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could explain why gravity is so weak. They might be curled up so tightly we cannot see them. High-energy particles ...

Extra dimensions sound like science fiction, but they could be part of the real world. Extra dimensions sound like science fiction, but they could be part of the real world. And if so, they might help ...

Several University of Texas at Austin mathematics faculty, including an incoming assistant professor, have seen their work spotlighted in the science publication Quanta in recent weeks. Distinct in 3D ...

the speed of light holds up under extremely tight scrutiny, a finding that rules out certain theories predicting extra dimensions and a “frothy” fabric of space.