{"id":2482,"date":"2018-01-12T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T04:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2482"},"modified":"2018-01-12T20:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T04:55:38","slug":"aeon-essay-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/aeon-essay-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeon Essay &#8211; Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity tells us our universe has 4 dimensions, string theory says its 10, or 11 if you take a variant known as M-theory. What does the term &#8220;dimension&#8221; mean in physics and mathematics, and how can we know how many there are? In <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\">Aeon<\/a> magazine, IFF director Margaret Wertheim has an <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/how-many-dimensions-are-there-and-what-do-they-do-to-reality\">essay<\/a>\u00a0looking at the history of this foundational concept. Wertheim writes: &#8220;The birth of modern science is usually seen as a transition into a mechanist account of nature, but arguably more important \u2013 and certainly more enduring \u2013 is the transition it entailed in our conception of space as a geometric construct.&#8221; From Descartes to Einstein, from relativity to string theory, and beyond, dimensionality is a crucial tool for understanding our world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.31.23-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2485\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.31.23-PM-1024x638.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.31.23-PM-1024x638.png 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.31.23-PM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.31.23-PM-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-8.31.23-PM.png 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relativity tells us our universe has 4 dimensions, string theory says its 10, or 11 if you take a variant known as M-theory. What does the term &#8220;dimension&#8221; mean in physics and mathematics, and how can we know how many there are? In Aeon magazine, IFF director Margaret Wertheim has an essay\u00a0looking at the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/2489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}