September 20 - 4:00pm Phys 223
(Coffee at 3:30p.m. in room 242)
Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago
Quotidian physics problems are solved in a 3-space- plus1-time-dimensional structure. The seemingly bizzare suggestion that our universe has more physical dimensions is in reality thoroughly plausible. For string theories to make sense, extra dimensions are actually required. Recent developments offer a variety of observables that encode information from a dimensionally richer space-time. An extended experimental program, from table-top to collider and astrophysics, is being developed to explore the intriguing possibility of an extra dimensional world.
http://hep.uchicago.edu/compton/lectures/smaria.html