American Physicist Suggests Infinite Dimensions of Space

Lisa Randall at Harvard University

A recent issue of Time magazine, "The Most Influential People in The World - The Time 100," named Lisa Randall, a professor of physics at Harvard University, one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was named because of her theory that there exist unlimited dimensions of space in our universe. She is considered the vanguard of the study of extra dimensions of space in physics.

During one of her nuclear fission experiments, Lisa discovered that some particles suddenly disappeared. From the experiment, she boldly hypothesised that the particles had entered a fifth dimension that is undetectable to human senses. The hypothesis is in direct conflict with Einstein's broader theory of relativity, and it created a great sensation in the international physics community.

According to the Time report, Lisa is not the first person who hypothesises hidden dimensions, but her theory suggests a revolutionary idea that an extra dimension could be infinitely large, and that we could be living in a 3D sink hole of a higher dimensional universe. She indicated that : "The fifth dimension is not far from us, and we could be very close to it. But we cannot detect it because it is very well hidden."

The European Atomic Nucleus Research Centre is building the world's largest-scale particle collider near the border of Switzerland and France. The construction of the machine is over 100 meters deep underground. Within a few weeks of its completion and it is put into operation, it may be able to help solve a few of the most profound and difficult problems in the field of physics.

When the time comes, two bundles of protons will be forced to crash into each other at 800 million times per second after being accelerated to near light-speed inside the 27-kilometre ring shaped tunnel. This will release gigantic amount of particles smaller than protons. If we can measure the particles are vanishing, then we verify that those particles have entered into the undetectable "fifth dimension".