PRIDE CHEKERA_HOW BEAUTY IS PHYSICS_SHORT ESSAY (2021 EBOOK)

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dimensional line.
Where other two dimensions went? According to the Kaluza-
Klein mechanism, the two dimensions are hidden from your
view, you don’t have access to them.


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Fig 2: Kaluza-Klein mechanism


That's the original Klein idea on Kaluza's conjecture. He
declared that the extra dimension was circular with a radius of
10 −^30 cm. These extra dimensions are exactly like the two
hidden dimensions in the above phenomenon.


The rise of the string theory


It was this Kaluza-Klein theory which sparked the emergence of
the string theory, a theory which emerged in 1960s as an attempt
of unifying gravity and electromagnetism.

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