Imagining ten dimensions
Theoretical physicists searching for the 'theory of everything' are always on about dimensions.
Just three aren't enough for them. To get the equations to work you have to have at least 10 and sometimes more (I think I read somewhere 26 really makes them sing!)
Here's a little help to grapple with the mind-bending idea.
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
