The IMSA Great Minds Program®
Normal, every day physics problems are solved in a 3-space plus 1-time-dimensional structure. The seemingly bizarre suggestion that our universe has more physical dimensions is in reality thoroughly plausible.
For string theories to make sense, extra dimensions are actually required. Recent developments offer a variety of observables that encode information from a dimensionally richer space-time. An extended experimental program, from tabletop to collider and astrophysics, is being developed to explore the intriguing possibility of an extra dimensional world.
Maria Spiropulu, a 32-year-old scientist with the Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago, is hot on the trail of extra dimensions. She's using new methods to prove, experimentally, whether our reality is more complicated than we previously assumed.
The IMSA Great Minds Program® is made possible, in part, from a generous contribution from the Tellabs Foundation.