Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Physicists are quietly advancing a radical idea: time might not be a single, thin line but a full three‑dimensional landscape ...

The Standard Model of our universe doesn’t match the evidence, in part because of dark energy, a ghostly force pushing the ...

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That’s the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues ...

Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they ...

Dark matter could be even weirder than anyone thought, say cosmologists who are suggesting this mysterious substance that accounts for more than 80% of the universe's mass could interact with itself. ...

You experience daily life in three spatial dimensions (and one dimension of time). You move forward and backward, step left and right, and go up and down stairs as you move around your world. But ...