32 questions linked to/from Is 3+1 spacetime as privileged as is claimed?
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Why is Space 3D? [duplicate]

Why is Space a THREE DIMENSIONAL ENTITY? I know that In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Does time matter?

Aside from the second law of thermodynamics it seems physics just doesn't care about the direction of time. So does time really matter? What if instead of 3 spacial and one time dimension. 3+0 or 3+2....
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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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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 a 3D Universe?

The universe as it stands is perceived by us to be 3 dimensional. Why is it that the universe formed into 3D space and not 4D or 5D space for example?
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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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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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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?