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25 - Could Extra Dimensions Exist?

Why This Universe?

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The Evolution of String Theory

In string theory, particles can't travel through all the dimensions of space. But in a new type of extra dimensional theory, gravity can propagate through full dimensionality of space time. This means that if you could do experiments about how strong the force of gravity is at the millimeter scale, find out how strongly things attract each other from gravity when separated by a millimeter or less, you could potentially test this kind of extradimensional theory.

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