World Science Festival — Season 1, Episode 7: Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
Documentary, Talk • 30 min • 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Episode synopsis
Extra dimensions of space — the idea that we are immersed in hyperspace — may be key to explaining the fundamental nature of the universe. Relativity introduced time as the fourth dimension, and Einstein’s subsequent work envisioned more dimensions still — but ultimately hit a dead end. Modern research has advanced the subject in ways he couldn’t have imagined. John Hockenberry joins Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and other leading thinkers on a visual tour through wondrous spatial realms that may lie beyond the ones we experience.
About World Science Festival
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
- E2Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
- E3A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
- E4Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
- E5Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
- E6Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
- E8Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
- E9How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
- E10Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
- E11The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
- E12The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence