{"id":74946,"date":"2018-01-05T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/experiments-show-the-effects-of-a-fourth-spatial-dimension"},"modified":"2018-01-11T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T01:05:14","slug":"experiments-show-the-effects-of-a-fourth-spatial-dimension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/experiments-show-the-effects-of-a-fourth-spatial-dimension","title":{"rendered":"Experiments Show The Effects of a Fourth Spatial Dimension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XfiFBsKi7go?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re used to dealing with three physical dimensions and one extra dimension of time as we move through the Universe, but two teams of scientists have shown that a fourth spatial dimension could reach beyond the limits of up and down, left and right, and forwards and backwards.<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect given this is bending the laws of physics, the experiments involved are partly theoretical and very complex, and touch on our old friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/quantum-complexity-rules-out-our-universe-as-a-computer-simulation\">quantum mechanics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By placing together two specially designed 2D setups, two separate teams of researchers \u2014 one in Europe and one in the US \u2014 were able to catch a glimpse of this fourth spatial dimension through what\u2019s known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_Hall_effect\">quantum Hall effect<\/a>, a certain way of restricting and measuring electrons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/experiments-show-dramatic-effects-of-fourth-spatial-dimension\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/experiments-show-dramatic-effect...-dimension<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re used to dealing with three physical dimensions and one extra dimension of time as we move through the Universe, but two teams of scientists have shown that a fourth spatial dimension could reach beyond the limits of up and down, left and right, and forwards and backwards. As you might expect given this is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74992,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74946\/revisions\/74992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}