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    WHAT’S INSIDE THE FIFTH DIMENSION?

    Jul 21, 2021 2 minutes

    n 1905, Albert Einstein showed in his Special Theory of Relativity that space is intimately connected to time via the cosmic speed limit of light and so, strictly speaking, we live in a Universe with four dimensions of spacetime. For everyday purposes however, we think of the Universe in three dimensions of space (north-south, east-west, up-down) and

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