compactifying

“Therefore, falling into this made-up black hole, you would experience two of the four dimensions compactifying!”

Making Extra Dimensions Disappear

“And then we try to bring that theory back into contact with the observed world around us, compactifying those extra dimensions and trying to match onto particle physics and cosmology.”

Science and Unobservable Things

“For example, somebody might have claimed that strings have been tested because WW scattering at LHC obeys causality, or that the string landscape exists because after compactifying the Standard Model one gets a few vacua, or …”

String Theory is Losing the Public Debate

“Also, “critical” string theory is that thing that people usually just call “string theory”, and this is where you hear all the stuff about it being 10 dimensional, etc, and we have to figure out ways of compactifying six of them to four dimensions, etc.”

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