AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities | Quanta Magazine

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

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Extra dimensions, gravitons, and tiny black holes

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“Do you believe the universe has more dimensions than we currently understand?”

Very interesting question. I don’t have a definitive answer, but I can share some of the scientific theories and evidence that explore this possibility/some of the ways we are trying to answer this fascinating question.

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On one hand, null results are always a little anticlimactic. On the other hand, thank goodness we're not trapped in a 3 dimensional "sheet" stretched bare through a greater dimensional spacetime. Imagine how terrifying that would be.

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-gravitational-dose-reality-extra-dimensions.html

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Gravitational waves provide dose of reality about extra dimensions

While last year's discovery of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars was earth-shaking, it won't add extra dimensions to our understanding of the universe—not literal ones, at least.