31 questions linked to/from Is 3+1 spacetime as privileged as is claimed?
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### Why does the universe exhibit three large-scale spatial dimensions? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is 3+1 spacetime as privileged as is claimed? Regardless of your favorite theory of how many dimensions the universe has in total, the universe seems to have a deep preference ...
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### Can superstring theories predict our 4 dimensions? [duplicate]

Popular science literature is replete with the necessity for superstring theories to live in at least 10 dimensions, requiring at least 6 of them to be compactified so that they are not observable. ...
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### Why are we in 3 spatial dimensions? [duplicate]

I am very curious to find if there is any reason that why are we in 3 dimensions not in any other like 1D would be hard almost impossible but 2D could have been possible, or what about 4D or in ...
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### Higher dimension world possibility [duplicate]

Could it be possible that all of the unexplained phenomena (like uncertainty) in our 4D world might be originated from a higher dimension universe? If so, then of course we'll never observe the ...
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### Why exactly is reality 3 spatial dimensional? [duplicate]

Reality seems to be 3 dimensional. Not just as a result of our own subjective interpretation, but as a result too of what our machines sense and derive. It does appear as though, apart from in unusual ...
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### Is the space in which we live fundamentally 3D or is this just how we perceive it? [closed]

What troubles me is how "nothingness" can have any attributes. The way we perceive space has a lot to do with light moving in straight lines and that we see this. But is there some non-...
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### How can we be so sure the universe has 3 dimensions?

I'm just a layman here so please bear with me if I don't get all the words or theories by correct name or whatever. I hope it will be clear enough what my question is. Here goes: When I read articles ...
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### A sketch of various combinations of numbers of space and time dimensions

I came across this picture/sketch on the internet, however there is no any explanation about it: What is "UNPREDICTIBLE"? "UNSTABLE"? "TOO SIMPLE"? "elliptic", "ultrahyperbolic"?? Some related ...
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### How do we know we live in 3 dimensions? [duplicate]

How do we know that we are really living in 3 dimensional world? We can draw 3D in a paper that is one dimension. So, maybe the world around us just looks 3D! how can we prove that we're living in 3 ...
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### Why is space-time four dimensional?

Wikipedia says, "In special relativity, four-momentum is the generalization of the classical three-dimensional momentum to four-dimensional space-time. Momentum is a vector in three dimensions; ...
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### Why are there 4 Dimensions and 4 Fundamental Forces?

Is it a coincidence that there are four fundamental forces and four spacetime dimensions ? Does a universe with three spacetime dimension contain four fundamental forces? Can magnetism be realized in ...
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### Do we live in a world with 4 or more dimension?

A NOVA show have told the audience that we are live in 3 dimensional world, the world we lived in is compose by 3 element: the energy, matter, space. By the time Einstein have invented the 4-...
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### A change in the gravitational law

What would happen if the force of gravitation suddenly starts varying as $1$$/$$r^3$ instead of $1/r^2$ ? Would the symmetry of universe now seen be disrupted?
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### what are dimensions?

First, discrete examples. In a computer screen I can specify any "2D" point with just one single number (pixel order starting count from first at upper left, and going on, left2right and up2down ...
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### Why doesn't the number of space dimensions equal the number of time dimensions?

It seems as though symmetry is a driving force behind theoretical physics. With symmetry in mind, should we expect that the number of time dimensions should be the same as the number of spatial ...

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