{"id":147446,"date":"2022-10-03T09:43:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/what-is-the-fifth-dimension"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:43:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:43:34","slug":"what-is-the-fifth-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/what-is-the-fifth-dimension","title":{"rendered":"What is the fifth dimension?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-is-the-fifth-dimension2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We directly experience 3 spatial and 1 temporal dimensions (3+1). But here\u2019s an interesting observation made by Kaluza and Klein almost a century ago: If you write the equations of general relativity in (4+1) dimensions, but imagine one spatial di\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We directly experience 3 spatial and 1 temporal dimensions (3+1). But here\u2019s an interesting observation made by Kaluza and Klein almost a century ago: If you write the equations of general relativity in (4+1) dimensions, but imagine one spatial di\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}