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Extra dimensions

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Oct 20, 2026

speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:11
we call them, exist and lay on top of each other, almost stacked, as if you had a blanket with another blanket stacked on top of it, and another blanket stacked on top of it.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:25
To explain this so you can understand, you can imagine the Earth and our reality as a thin blanket, and all these other higher dimensions are the blankets laying directly on top of ours.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:36
However, we can only see our own blanket.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
45:42
Now the alien beings or the ships that we have seen in videos and that many people have captured over the years are in fact what we call jumpers in that they exist in their relative dimensions but have in fact jumped into ours.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:14
However, when you look at Jupiter in an elevated dimension, you will see that it has completely changed in all forms.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:25
you will see that it's no longer a deadly ball of gas, but is now solid, has a different color, and is now inhabited.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:34
We know for a fact this is true due to the fact that the government has the technology to detect these higher dimensions and actually get a small view of what the solar system looks like on the other side, as we call it, in these other dimensions.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
47:52
There is much we do not know about the universe and how it works.
speaker_3HOST
8:02
It might be incredibly strong, but it's leaking into undiscovered extra spatial dimensions.
speaker_2HOST
8:06
Extra dimensions, like beyond the 3D space we walk around in plus time.
speaker_3HOST
8:10
Yes.
speaker_3HOST
8:11
String theory requires these extraspatial dimensions to exist in order for its complex math to balance out.
speaker_3HOST
8:41
The extra dimension is curled up so tightly that you can only experience it if you are small enough.
speaker_2HOST
8:46
Oh, that makes sense.
speaker_2HOST
8:47
So we don't notice these extra dimensions because we are way too big, just like someone staring at the telephone wire from a mile away.
speaker_3HOST
8:54
Yeah.
Lara AndersonGUEST
1:53
This gets tricky because we know that if there were big things, that we would have seen those with atom smashing experiments like the Large Hadron Collider.
Lara AndersonGUEST
2:01
If there were large extra dimensions that were the same size as the rest of our universe, things would fly off into them and you'd watch all these pieces just disappear all the time.
Lara AndersonGUEST
2:10
You'd watch energy and mass disappear.
Jordan KlepperGUEST
2:12
Space Fact.

29 MINS LATER

Lara AndersonGUEST
31:13
But if you had an extra dimension where you could pull those two apart, then it doesn't have to be singular anymore.
Lara AndersonGUEST
31:18
Now you just have two separate, you know, smooth curves sitting there.
Lara AndersonGUEST
31:21
So the same could be true for space time and that things that look singular in our universe could actually be smoothed out by having extra dimensions available.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
31:29
So the answer is yes.
Maggie MillerGUEST
25:53
So that tells me that the torus has one hole, and I can formalize it in terms of these subspaces, these circles that are smaller in dimension that sit inside of the surface.
Maggie MillerGUEST
26:04
So I can do that in higher dimensions too.
Maggie MillerGUEST
26:07
If I'm trying to distinguish two four manifolds from each other, sometimes I can rephrase that as a question about, well, what kind of surfaces sit inside of these four-dimensional spaces?
Steve StrogatzHOST
26:18
[upbeat music] So when I listen to that with my topologist hat on, I'm thinking that there's a gambit that Maggie is using here that we're trained to use in topology all the time, to use, as she puts it, these smaller dimensional objects to probe higher dimensional objects.

21 MINS LATER

Janna LevinHOST
47:38
[laughs]
Maggie MillerGUEST
47:38
We can't draw all of them.
Maggie MillerGUEST
47:40
You can in principle do that in higher dimensions too.
Maggie MillerGUEST
47:42
I, I have a paper or m- maybe a few papers where I draw five-dimensional spaces as well.
Lara AndersonGUEST
27:20
Now you just have two separate, you know, smooth curves sitting there.
Lara AndersonGUEST
27:23
So the same could be true for spacetime, and that things that look singular in our universe could actually be smoothed out by having extra dimensions available.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
27:31
So the answer is yes.
Lara AndersonGUEST
27:32
So the answer is yeah.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
27:35
but why not take a, take an, an extra step? Could most of the things we see, think of, and interact with in our three-dimensional universe be the shadows of higher dimensions cast into our world?
Lara AndersonGUEST
27:49
In terms of the size of those dimensions, this gets tricky because we know that if there were big things, um, big extra directions, um, for things to move in, that we would've seen those with the way that all sorts of experiments run.
Lara AndersonGUEST
28:02
So for example, in atom smashing experiments like the Large Hadron Collider, right, you know, you're smashing two protons together and you watch all these pieces fly out and you calculate their kinetic energy and how they're hitting all these detectors, and if there were large extra dimensions that, you know, were the same size as the rest of our universe, things would fly off into them and you'd watch all these pieces just disappear all the time.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
28:23
Oh.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:06
call them, exist and lay on top of each other almost stacked as if you had a blanket with another blanket stacked on top of it, and another blanket stacked on top of it.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:20
To explain it so you can understand, you can imagine the Earth and our reality as a thin blanket, and all of these other higher dimensions are the blankets laying directly on top of ours.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:32
However, we can only see our own blanket.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
42:37
Now the alien beings, or the ships that we have seen in videos, and that many people have captured over the years are in fact what we call jumpers in that they exist in their relative dimensions but have in fact jumped into ours.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
44:20
You will see that it's no longer a deadly ball of gas, but is now solid, has a different color, and is now inhabited.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
44:29
We know for a fact this is true.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
44:32
due to the fact that the government has the technology to detect these higher dimensions and actually get a small view of what the solar system looks like on the other side, as we call it, in these other dimensions.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
44:47
There is much we do not know about the universe and how it works.

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