• Question: Why does space have three dimensions?

    Asked by anon-174153 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Carl, Alex on 20 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 20 Jun 2018:

      The theory for this is that three dimensions is the number that allows the universe to inflate and become large – more dimensions would have been unstable and the universe as we know it would not have formed.

    • Photo: Carl Barford

      Carl Barford answered on 20 Jun 2018:

      Now I thought the fourth one was time – am I wrong here?

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