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Evidence of 6 Dimensions or More?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the so-thats-where-all-the-socks-go dept.

shelflife writes "Nature.com is reporting that there may be evidence of 6 dimensions. Galaxies seem to behave as there were more matter in them than is actually visible. 'One explanation, they say, is that three extra dimensions, in addition to the three spatial ones to which we are accustomed, are altering the effects of gravity over very short distances of about a nanometre.'" Update by J : Like most of string theory, this is acknowledged by its authors to be "extremely speculative."

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  1. Yeah... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Our theories don't work. I know there must be some invisible matter in extra dimensions that we can't see that's doing it! Probably the dimensions where the elves live that build the toys for Santa Clause.