Seeing the Fifth Dimension Through Dark Matter - The Cosmic Companion Feb 3, 2021
Physicists first suggested extra dimensions beyond those we experience in everyday life almost a hundred years ago. Here's how we might detect it.
Could a fifth dimension of nature may be glimpsed through interactions with dark matter?
By James Maynard
A theory of dark matter that goes beyond the Standard Model of physics suggests dark matter may be seen through interactions within the fifth dimension.
This idea could allow physicists to test fascinating ideas, potentially explaining much about the very nature of spacetime.
“After years of searching for possible confirmations of our theoretical predictions, we are now confident that the mechanism we have discovered would make dark matter accessible to forthcoming experiments, because the properties of the new interaction between ordinary matter and dark matter — which is mediated by our proposed particle — can be calculated accurately within our theory,” said Professor Matthias Neubert, head of the research team that made the finding.
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