
Originally Posted by
drewmandan
Mainstream physics uses 4 (3+1) dimensions. Some string theories, which are unproven and are probably wrong, use 10 (9+1) dimensions and others use 11 (10+1). There was a brief moment in the early 20th century when a fellow whose name escapes me used a 5th dimension to formulate Maxwell's equations as a curvature of 5-dimensional spacetime, but that was just a mathematical oddity.
Nowhere has there ever been postulated 6 dimensions, and certainly not infinitely many.
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