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Some scientists think they have found a way to detect other dimensions using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/searching-upside-down
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/5686930/cern-hadron-collider-experiment-conspiracy-doomsday-twitter/
One way of seeing evidence for other dimensions involves gravity – specifically, the theoretical particle associated with the force of gravity, called the graviton. One theory suggests that the graviton may move in all dimensions, not just the ones we live in. And if we can create gravitons at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, we might be able to see evidence of them leaving our dimensions for other ones.
Gravity “leaking” into extra dimensions could explain why it is such a weak force – gravity becomes strong in places we can’t see, while the other forces (such as electromagnetism) are constrained to our familiar three spatial dimensions. With the LHC we can probe what the flea in the above analogy sees, by imaging at incredibly tiny scales. If the full force of gravity is as strong as the other forces are, then colliding high-energy particles in a small region of space would create microscopic black holes – harmless ones that decay in a fraction of a trillionth of a second – which would be evidence of gravity slipping into other dimensions.
The Large Hadron Collider makes it possible to hunt for this evidence, and DOE Office of Science National Laboratories are at the forefront of this research as collaborators from the U.S. are leading efforts at the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/searching-upside-down
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/5686930/cern-hadron-collider-experiment-conspiracy-doomsday-twitter/
One way of seeing evidence for other dimensions involves gravity – specifically, the theoretical particle associated with the force of gravity, called the graviton. One theory suggests that the graviton may move in all dimensions, not just the ones we live in. And if we can create gravitons at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, we might be able to see evidence of them leaving our dimensions for other ones.
Gravity “leaking” into extra dimensions could explain why it is such a weak force – gravity becomes strong in places we can’t see, while the other forces (such as electromagnetism) are constrained to our familiar three spatial dimensions. With the LHC we can probe what the flea in the above analogy sees, by imaging at incredibly tiny scales. If the full force of gravity is as strong as the other forces are, then colliding high-energy particles in a small region of space would create microscopic black holes – harmless ones that decay in a fraction of a trillionth of a second – which would be evidence of gravity slipping into other dimensions.
The Large Hadron Collider makes it possible to hunt for this evidence, and DOE Office of Science National Laboratories are at the forefront of this research as collaborators from the U.S. are leading efforts at the CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC.
