Detecting other dimensions

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This applies to a couple other threads - so I thought I'd start a new one.

Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.

But do braneworld black holes really exist -- and therefore stand as evidence for the 5-D braneworld theory?

The scientists showed that it should be possible to answer this question by observing the effects that braneworld black holes would exert on electromagnetic radiation traveling to Earth from other galaxies. Any such radiation passing near a black hole will be acted upon by the object's tremendous gravitational forces -- an effect called "gravitational lensing."

I think that the experiments are a little out of our budget right now, but this is a great reason to increase our over-all wealth and resources... so that experiments like this can be afforded. It's certainly cheaper than the equipment I've heard is needed to test String Theory (giant colliders).

In other news, the environment outside our solar system is confusing astronomers who are tracking Voyager.
 
Sincerely good luck to the creative thinkers, there are other theories about how gravitation isn't as weak at distance as suggested by both Einstein and Newton that explain many gravitational anomolies, there equally fringe ATM, but I've always been a fan of fringe science up to a point, quantum mechanics is amazing, and more so when we accept all the possibilities, even if we don't advocate them, after all Einstein once said that the only theoretical physisits he saw for ten years were those he saw when he looked in a mirror.
 
Quantum physics has gotten to the point where the blatantly outrageous and false and the real science has become indistinguishable. IE it's so crazy that we can't really tell which theories aren't real.
 
Is this about the Paul Wessons theory that our universe is the inside of a 5-dimensional black hole?
 
blackheart said:
Quantum physics has gotten to the point where the blatantly outrageous and false and the real science has become indistinguishable. IE it's so crazy that we can't really tell which theories aren't real.
Probably none of them. ;) It seems to me that the best evidence for one more dimension is that relativity "bends" three dimensional space. Bending 2D space creates a third dimension; perhaps bending 3 creates the fourth. We just have to figure out how to "see" it.
 
Well, one way to try to verify the existence of other dimensions in the near future is to use the LHC-particle accelerator in CERN which is currently under construction.
 
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