This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or gravitational fields, which could explain a ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in equations rather than explained from first principles. A new proposal argues that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain.

What if time were the only truly fundamental dimension of our Universe? A recent theory proposes a radically different vision of reality, where time has three dimensions. This approach challenges our ...

The metric dimension is a key invariant in graph theory that encapsulates the minimal number of reference points, or “resolving sets”, required to uniquely determine the position of each vertex within ...

When Dr. Alex Murry (a bearded Chris Pine) tries to explain a new theory of dimensional physics that would undo hundreds of years of accepted science in A Wrinkle in Time and allow for interstellar ...

String theory found its origins in an attempt to understand the nascent experiments revealing the strong nuclear force. Eventually another theory, one based on particles called quarks and force ...