Wasn’t this in Particle Fever? That doc is incredible.
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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This unlocked a song that has been buried in my mind for YEARS:
Now some of you may think that gravity is strong Cuz when you fall Off your bicycle It don’t take long Until you hit the earth And you say, “Dang that hurt!”
But if you think the force Is powerful You’re wrong
You see, gravity It’s weaker than weak!
And the reason why Is something many Scientists seek
They think about dimensions We live in just three But maybe there are others That are too small to see
It’s into these dimensions that gravity extends Which makes it seem weaker here on our end
And these dimensions are rolled up, curled so tight That they don’t affect you in your day-to-day life
But if you were as tiny as a graviton You could enter these dimensions and go wandering on And they’d find you…
LHCb sees where the antimatter’s gone, ALICE looks at collisions of lead ions
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
Klear@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
“Gravity is weaker than weak” is such a strong line.
mmddmm@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Oh, a song from the time superstrings were still cool?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 5 days ago
A brave little theory, and actually quite coherent for a system of five or seven dimensions — if only we lived in one.
mmddmm@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yes, it’s the obvious extension from what we have now, and quite coherent for explaining some universe that isn’t the one we live in.
It just shouldn’t have monopolized theoretical physics for a generation. It’s really hard to imagine something different, but this is even more reason to celebrate the people trying that, not to shun then and focus on what you already have.