What is it about?
Recent astrophysical and accelerator data, in particular from the LHC, are severely challenging the concept of extra dimensions that is the cause root for string theory and supersymmetry theories.
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Why is it important?
The importance lies in the fact that it is experimental data and not competing theories that question the physical reality of string theory and supersymmetry. In other words, the edifice of theoretical physical built over the last four decades may have have to be reconsidered as well as the concept of a hot big bang resulting from a quasi singularity.
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We feel that Nature does not seem to have used the concept of extra dimensions but instead the concept of extra number systems , that is, in addition to real and imaginary number systems, quaternions , octonions etc. may have been utilized, leading to different symmetry groups and also to different types of matter. Perhaps the recent incompatible experimental data concerning MOND, the size of the proton, the lifetime of the neutron, the varying results of Newton's constant, and most recently the irreconcilable results of the AMS-02 experiments predicting a dark matter particle at about 80 GeV and the entirely negative outcome from generations of accelerator data concerning the existence of such a particle, may be resolved. In part two of our article we will present an attempt to resolve these conflicting results.
Jochem Hauser
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This page is a summary of: Gravity beyond Einstein? Part I: Physics and the Trouble with Experiments, Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/zna-2016-0479.
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