In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, ...
The CDF Collaboration at Fermilab has confirmed that a subatomic particle called the Bs meson flips between matter and ...
The book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott explores the concept of physical dimensions through characters who encounter higher-dimensional beings. The protagonist, “A. Square,” ...
In the illustration: A tesseract (a four-dimensional cube) and the "shadow" it casts on a plane—the quasicrystal discovered by Shechtman. According to Prof. Bartal, "The fact that a quasicrystal is a ...
If your thoughts feel like they come from somewhere deeper—somewhere beyond—there might be a scientific reason for that. That’s the crux of Pop Mech’s new story, “Human Consciousness Comes From a ...
The notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to ...
Fourier series have long served as a cornerstone for representing periodic functions through harmonic components. In higher dimensions, these tools become indispensable for analysing complex systems, ...