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It is demonstrated in general that stable gravitational or electrostatic orbits are not possible for spatial dimensions n >=4, and in particular atoms cannot be bound by energy constraints in higher dimensions. Furthermore, angular momentum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Rabinowitz

Some superstring theories have more than one effective low-energy limit, corresponding to classical spacetimes with different dimensionalities. We argue that all but the 3+1-dimensional one might correspond to ``dead worlds'', devoid of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Max Tegmark

Complex structures can only form in a universe that allows for bound states. While this is clearly observed in three-dimensions, added degrees of freedom in a higher-dimensional space preclude the immediate assumption that binding…

The evolution of sub-spaces in the framework of gravity with higher derivatives is studied. Numerical solutions to exact differential equations are found. It is shown that the initial conditions play crucial role in the space dynamic.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Arkady A. Popov , Sergey G. Rubin

The question of whether hydrogen atoms can exist or not in spaces with a number of dimensions greater than 3 is revisited, considering higher dimensional Euclidean spaces. Previous results which lead to different answers to this question…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Francisco Caruso , Jordan Martins , Vitor Oguri

The requirement that physical phenomena associated with gravitational collapse should be duly reconciled with the postulates of quantum mechanics implies that at a Planckian scale our world is not 3+1 dimensional. Rather, the observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-21 G. 't Hooft

It is shown by very simple arguments that the observed 3+1 dimensionality of spacetime may be understood on the basis of four fundamental principles of physics namely, Causality, General Covariance, Gauge Invariance and Renormalizability.…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-25 Rajat K. Pradhan

It is sometimes pointed out as a curiosity that the state space of quantum two-level systems, i.e. the qubit, and actual physical space are both three-dimensional and Euclidean. In this paper, we suggest an information-theoretic analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Markus P. Mueller , Lluis Masanes

A holistic view of the cosmological appearance and development of space is obtained by studying space as a spherically closed surface of a 4-sphere in a zero energy balance between motion and gravitation. Such an approach re-establishes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tuomo Suntola

We are answering the question why 4-dimensional space has the metric 1+3 by making a general argument from a certain type of equations of motion linear in momentum for any spin (except spin zero) in any even dimension d. All known free…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Mankoc Borstnik , H. B. Nielsen

The standard picture of viable higher-dimensional theories is that extra dimensions manifest themselves at short distances only, their effects being negligible at scales larger than some critical value. We show that this is not necessarily…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ruth Gregory , Valery A. Rubakov , Sergei M. Sibiryakov

Euclidean geometry does not characterize dynamic electronic orbitals satisfactorily for even a single electron in a hydrogen atom is a formidable mathematical task with the Schrodinger equation. Here the author puts forward a new spacetime…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kunming Xu

Why is space 3-dimensional? The first answer to this question, entirely based on Physics, was given by Ehrenfest, in 1917, who showed that the stability requirement for $n$-dimensional two-body planetary system very strongly constrains…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Francisco Caruso , Roberto Moreira Xavier

All the relativistic cosmological models of the universe, except Einstein's static model, imply that the 3-space of the spacetime of the universe is also expanding apart from the matter and the radiation in it. However, there is no…

General Physics · Physics 2009-01-15 R. K. Thakur

If time has three dimensions, how does a particle move? This paper demonstrates that quantum physics naturally emerges from a framework of three-dimensional time. We present the equations governing the motion of 0-spin, 1-spin, and 1/2-spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Xiaodong Chen

There are anthropic reasons to suspect that life in more than three spatial dimensions is not possible, and if the same could be said of fewer than three, then one would have an anthropic argument for why we experience precisely three large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 J. H. C. Scargill

The dimensional structure of space-time is investigated according to physical and mathematical methods. We show that ther are various empirical and theoretical restrictions on the number of independent dimensions of space-time, consequently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ghaboussi

Polygon spaces have been studied extensively, and yet missing from the literature is a simple property that every polygon has: dimension. This is distinct (possibly) from the dimension of the ambient space in which the polygon lives. A…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Jack Love

Rotational energy dissipation in the solar system confines the planets to the ecliptic, this can be thought of as a dimensional reduction from three dimensions to two. It is argued that the same mechanism restricts five dimensional matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-01 Mark D. Roberts

In the usual brane-world scenario matter fields are confined to the four-dimensional spacetime, called a 3-brane, embedded in a higher-dimensional space, usually referred to as the bulk spacetime. In this paper we assume that the 3-brane is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-15 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig
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