A space telescope scheduled for launch in 2007 will be sensitive enough to detect theoretical miniature black holes lurking within our solar system, scientists say.
By doing so, it could test an exotic five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. That is, of course, if the tiny black holes actually exist.
The idea, recently detailed online in the journal Physical Review D, is being proposed by Charles Keeton, a physicist at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Arlie Petters of Duke University in North Carolina.
Branes
The Randall-Sundrum braneworld model, named after the scientists who created it, states that the visible universe is a membrane embedded within a larger universe, like a strand of seaweed floating in the ocean. Unlike the universe described by General Relativity—which has three dimensions of space and one of time—the braneworld universe contains an extra fourth dimension of space for a total of five dimensions.
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I like the seaweed analogy...
A model of what the 5th Dimension might look like was released by a team of scientist at MIT.
See image below.
Why back in my day we only had 1 dimension and we liked it that way!
sounds nifty
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