physics
BY andrew lee
A Long Blurb about Dimensional Analysis
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And not the kind you do in your chem class.
So how many dimensions in space exist exactly? Can we travel through wormholes and through space and time? Can we put these theories to use? Maybe. There have been some good arguments and theories being created by physicists that prove that things like inter-dimensional travel is a possibility. To show this argument, let’s prove a few things.
How do we know there are more than the 3 dimensions we know of? Firstly, we know that based off of data from the Hubble telescope, something called red-shifting in space occurs when the wavelengths of light waves in space change. WIth this idea and some complex non-Euclidean geometry applications, we can prove that there must exist more than 3 dimensions.
Think of this concept like an inflating balloon: if you see a balloon being inflated from the bottom or top plane, you would see the surface of the balloon being warped into a 3rd dimension. Just like this analogy, we can theorize that space is curved into a 4th dimension. One more strange theory is M-theory, which tells us that there exists about 10 or 11 dimensions that are compact and can be unpacked like boxes. From this, scientists implied that these “boxes” could be manipulated and cause something called warp drive. Basically,
theoretical physics
EDITORIAL: ISSUE ONE
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