Publication Date
3-1-2021
Abstract
According to modern physics, space-time originally was of dimension 11 or higher, but then additional dimensions became compactified, i.e., size in these directions remains small and thus, not observable. As a result, at present, we only observed 4 dimensions of space-time. There are mechanisms that explain how compactification may have occurred, but the remaining question is why it occurred. In this paper, we provide two first-principles-based explanations for space-time compactification: based on Second Law of Thermodynamics and based on geometry and symmetries.
Comments
Technical Report: UTEP-CS-21-29
Published in Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Constraint Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2021, Szeged, Hungary, September 12, 2021.