32 questions linked to/from Is 3+1 spacetime as privileged as is claimed?
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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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### 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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### 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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### 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 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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### 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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### 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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### 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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### 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 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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### 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 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 ...