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Universe may have 7 dimensions in bombshell theory | Science | News

Universe may have 7 dimensions in bombshell theory | Science | News

A paradox that stumped scientists for decades has an explanation, as long as the universe has seven dimensions. Stephen Hawking’s theory that black holes eventually evaporate into nothingness presented a contradiction to a fundamental understanding in physics and quantum mechanics. However, a new theory by scientists suggests that black holes never fully disappear and remnants are left behind, as long as there are seven dimensions, three extra to the traditionally accepted four dimensions we have known about for generations. Scientists believe that, as well as length, width, height and time, there are three hidden dimensions in the universe, and they are folded so densely that they cannot be easily perceived. This seems to solve the decades-old ‘information paradox’, as traditionally, the laws of quantum mechanics state that information can never completely disappear or be destroyed, which contradicts Hawking’s theory that back holes eventually evaporate and cease to exist. Senior researcher at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Richard Pinčák, told the Daily Mail: “Imagine you throw a book into a fire. The book is destroyed, but …

Psychological Dimensions of Zen Garden Temples

Psychological Dimensions of Zen Garden Temples

I just returned from a pilgrimage to Japanese temples and gardens, and I’ve been fascinated by their psychological dimensions. This is a topic that is not often discussed. These Zen temple gardens are not the stuff of your mother’s ornamental garden club. They are living relics that speak to us through darkness and despair—through centuries of war, famine, death, and destruction. They are timeless and yet profoundly address the needs of today. They offer a response that is at once ancient and enduring. One historian called them the “essence of Zen.” One garden, Ryoan-ji, spoke to me in its silence and serenity, almost like a wise Zen master sharing their wisdom. Last night, returning home after a 20-hour journey, I couldn’t stop reading about the findings of Artemis 2, which had just splashed down. The findings of this moon journey resonated with the deep wisdom of these garden temples. Let me explain. Before I left for Japan, I was concerned about a patient who fell into a sudden, major depressive episode that neither one of …

Physicists use pulses of light in 37 dimensions to prove quantum paradox

Physicists use pulses of light in 37 dimensions to prove quantum paradox

A puzzle with only three moves may sound simple. In quantum physics, it can still break classical logic. That is the heart of a new experiment led by physicist Zhenghao Liu and colleagues at the Technical University of Denmark. Writing in Science Advances, the team built what they describe as a three-context Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger, or GHZ-type, paradox. Then they reproduced its statistics in a 37-dimensional optical system. As a result, the outcome sharpened one of quantum theory’s strangest claims: what you can say about a system depends on how you choose to measure it. In ordinary life, measurement seems passive. You check a speed, a weight, a temperature, and assume the thing you measured already had that value. However, quantum mechanics does not let you keep that picture. The study focused on contextuality, the idea that even when a set of measurements is compatible, you still cannot assign fixed preexisting values without specifying the full measurement context. The GHZ paradox has long served as one of the cleanest ways to expose that tension. It sets up …

What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?

What does it mean if the universe has extra dimensions?

Extra dimensions allow for even more complex shapes Vitalij Chalupnik / Alamy and NASA, ESA, and K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) In one of the most memorable interviews of my career thus far, I was at my desk, head in my hands, talking on the phone to a physicist about extra dimensions. I was trying to understand what it means for an entire dimension to be small. After several minutes of back and forth, I said, “Not small like a jellybean, though, right?”, as I mentally blocked out the laughter of the colleague sitting across from me. The answer? Well, it’s complicated. We invoke “extra” dimensions in physics with some regularity, but very rarely do we talk about what that actually means. They often come into play when string theory is mentioned, a radical set of ideas that suggests everything is made of unbelievably tiny strings. As those strings vibrate, they would produce effects we interpret as atoms, electrons and quarks. I tend to be a little leery of string theory, mostly because the ideas within it …

Harry Styles review, Co-op Live Manchester: Controlled disco-pop of Kiss All the Time takes on new dimensions

Harry Styles review, Co-op Live Manchester: Controlled disco-pop of Kiss All the Time takes on new dimensions

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This It’s become a common observation in conversations about current music: where did the men in pop go? Contrarians might argue that over the last few years we’ve had Benson Boone’s backflipping, Alex Warren’s aggressive ordinariness and, on the alternative side, Sombr’s laidback 2000s indie. Indeed, a void has to be filled somehow. But the gender scales were always going to feel dramatically tipped in favour of the Charlis, Sabrinas and Rosalías… until Harry Styles sauntered back onto the stage tonight in a little blue jumper and daisy print shirt, here to celebrate his new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. Only he could elicit this level of guttural screaming: painful, blood-curdling shrieks at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena that, after 75 minutes, leave your ears aching. The order of play is this: a full run through of Styles’s muted disco-pop LP, then a …

A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist

DAVID PARKER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Last year, cosmologists working on the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) reported hints that the mysterious dark energy thought to be driving the expansion of the universe may be weakening over time. If these startling findings prove correct, then dark energy cannot be a cosmological constant – a fixed term in our equations that represents the energy of empty space – after all. When this bombshell hit, most of the buzz focused on what that means for the standard model of cosmology, known as lambda-CDM, our best attempt to explain the evolution of universe. If the results firm up, we may finally have the clues required to build a better theory. Already, researchers are busy trying to rethink dark energy, and possibly dark matter and gravity, too. But if the strength of dark energy really does diminish over cosmic time, the implications could run far wider and deeper. Wider, in the sense that it could provide fresh impetus for proponents of alternative cosmologies that change our understanding of the fate of …

Alex Ross Drawing, Writing New Graphic Novel ‘Marvel Dimensions’

Alex Ross Drawing, Writing New Graphic Novel ‘Marvel Dimensions’

Comic book painter Alex Ross burst out onto the comics scene in the mid-1990s when he produced a one-two punch of electrifying and celebrated works, Marvels for Marvel Comics and Kingdom Come for DC Comics. For a good chunk of this century, however, he has become known mostly for his lush and colorfully vivid covers for Marvel. Readers were treated to the full Ross experience when he returned to writing and drawing interiors for his widely-praised 2022 graphic novel Fantastic Four: Full Circle. And while that was the first Ross book in years, fans don’t have to wait as long for his next opus, one that could be as ambitious and impactful as his classic works. Ross has written and illustrated Marvel Dimensions, an all-new 112-page graphic novel that Abrams ComicArts, in partnership with Marvel Comics, will release in September. Much of the story is being kept under wraps, but it’s meant to be both a tour of the classic Marvel Universe and something much more expansive. It’s said to be a work that experiments …

Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War

Discovering the Dimensions of a New Cold War

In 2025, American and world leaders were preoccupied with wars in the Middle East. Most dramatically, first Israel and the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. Some commentators feared that President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran would drag the United States into the “forever wars” in the Middle East that presidential candidate Trump had pledged to avoid. The tragic war in Gaza had become a humanitarian disaster. After years of promising to reduce engagement with the region from Democratic and Republican presidents alike, it appeared that the US was being dragged back into Middle East once again. I hope that’s not the case. Instead, in 2026, President Trump, his administration, the US Congress, and the American people more generally must realize that the real challenges to the American national interests, the free world, and global order more generally come not from the Middle East but from the autocratic China and Russia. The three-decade honeymoon from great power politics after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War is over. For …