{"id":57249,"date":"2017-05-08T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/gravitational-waves-could-be-the-key-to-discovering-extra-dimensions-in-our-universe"},"modified":"2017-05-08T23:02:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T06:02:49","slug":"gravitational-waves-could-be-the-key-to-discovering-extra-dimensions-in-our-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/gravitational-waves-could-be-the-key-to-discovering-extra-dimensions-in-our-universe","title":{"rendered":"Gravitational Waves Could Be The Key to Discovering Extra Dimensions in Our Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gravitational-waves-could-be-the-key-to-discovering-extra-dimensions-in-our-universe.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we want to find extra dimensions lurking within our Universe \u2014 something that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/watch-the-best-explanation-of-string-theory-we-ve-ever-seen\">string theory<\/a> attempts to explain \u2014 gravitational waves could be our key to locating them, physicists suggest.<\/p>\n<p>This new hypothesis seeks to answer the long-standing mystery of why gravity appears to be weaker than the other fundamental forces in our Universe, by proposing that it\u2019s actually \u2018leaking out\u2019 into extra dimensions we\u2019re yet to detect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtra dimensions have been discussed for a long time from different points of view,\u201d Emilian Dudas from the \u00c9cole Polytechnique in France, who wasn\u2019t involved in the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23431244-200-gravitational-waves-could-show-hints-of-extra-dimensions\/\">told Leah Crane at <em>New Scientist.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gravitational-waves-could-be-the-key-to-discovering-extra-dimensions-in-our-universe#.WRFZaKbXV7w.facebook\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gravitational-waves-could-be-the...w.facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we want to find extra dimensions lurking within our Universe \u2014 something that string theory attempts to explain \u2014 gravitational waves could be our key to locating them, physicists suggest. This new hypothesis seeks to answer the long-standing mystery of why gravity appears to be weaker than the other fundamental forces in our Universe, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57249","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}