29 questions linked to/from Is 3+1 spacetime as privileged as is claimed?
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### Are we living in a Universe with 3 time dimensions and 1 spatial dimension? [duplicate]

If I said that we are living in a Universe with 3 time dimensions and 1 spatial dimension, would I be wrong? By that I mean if the spacetime interval was evaluated as ...
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### Compactification of dimensions in string theory: Why our Universe has 3 large spatial dimensions?

Is the only way that string theory can respect the principles of quantum mechanics, and Einstein's special theory of relativity, is to formulate it in a hypothetical nine dimensional space? You could ...
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### Plausible explanations for 3 large space dimensions

Every now and then I see accounts of models that claim to explain why we experience only 3 large space dimensions (locally, i.e. within cosmic horizons and outside black hole horizons). One such of ...
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### Are dimensions a fundamental property of the universe or an emergent result of other physical laws?

Are space-time dimensions a fundamental property of the universe or an emergent result of other physical laws?
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### Compactified extra dimensions and symmetry

It's my understanding that M-Theory necessitates 11 space-time dimensions (10 spatial dimensions plus 1 time dimension) in order work mathematically. This appears to jar with reality, which only ...
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### How can we be certain our world has only three spatial dimensions? [duplicate]

It's common knowledge that the universe has three spatial dimensions, and one temporal. But how can we be so sure? Physics tells us that vector forces act independently along different dimensions, so ...
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### Spacetime has an infinite number of choices for differentiability. Coincidence?

Spacetime can be modelled using a four-dimensional topological manifold. Say we denote the manifold using $(M, \mathcal{O})$ where $\dim M =d$. The structure $(M,\mathcal{O})$ is not sufficient for ...
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### Higher dimensions

1) How we determine whether the higher dimensions are Unstable or Unpredictable? Or on the basis of what assumption we make this prediction? (Source of Image: Max Tegmark. See also this Wikipedia ...
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### Instability of higher dimensional universes

According to superstring theory, there are at least 10 dimensions in the universe (M-theory actually suggests that there are 11 dimensions to spacetime; bosonic string theories suggest 26 dimensions). ...
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### Why spacetime has 3+1 large dimensions and remaining higher dimensions underwent compactification? Why spacetime hasn't got eg. 5+4 or 3+5 dimensions?

Yesterday I wrote very, very big thread which proved to be too broad, so according to your instructions I divided it. Content is unchanged. I read that it might be related to the phenomenon of ...
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### 2 space and 1 time dimensions [closed]

I know it is impossible to visualise a 3 space and 1 time dimensions. But what about 2 space and 1 time dimensions? Will it be like similar to 3 space dimensions or different? If different will it be ...
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### Is 3 spatial dimensions most suitable to life? [closed]

As we're 3 dimensional beings, it's easy to say that the 3rd dimension is the most suitable for life, because we have trillions of examples of 3 dimensional life and no examples for any other ...