It’s been 120 years since Henry Cavendish measured the gravitational constant with a pair of lead balls suspended by a wire. The fundamental nature of gravity still eludes our best minds - but those ...

When it comes to the dimensions of spacetime, what you see may be what you get. Using observations from the collision of two neutron stars that made headlines in 2017 (SN: 11/11/17, p. 6), scientists ...

In 1919, physicist Theodor Kaluza hypothesized that extra dimensions might solve some outstanding problems in physics. And while we haven't found any evidence yet for anything outside our normal ...

June 28 (UPI) --Many theoretical frameworks used to explain quantum gravity and other cosmological phenomena, including string theory, require extra dimensions. Some use spacetime as a single extra ...

Scientists have used a pulsed slow neutron beamline to probe the deviation of the inverse square law of gravity below the wavelength of 0.1 nm. The experiment achieved the highest sensitivity for a ...

A recent study has made strides toward solving one of physics’ biggest puzzles: including all known particles and interactions into the theory of quantum gravity. The solution is to modify the quantum ...

Scientists have measured gravity at an extremely short distance, in what they hope will tell us more about extra dimensions. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe ...

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While last year’s discovery of gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars was Earth-shaking, it won’t add extra dimensions to our understanding of the universe—not literal ones, at least. The ...

In our universe there is a big problem with gravity. It is far weaker than the other fundamental forces and scientists cannot explain why. One proposal is that its energy is leaking into other, ...