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The Problem of Kaluza and Klein

In the 1920s two mathematicians, Theodor Kaluza and Oskar Klein, had an idea: What if there’s an extra space dimension? They wanted to unify the fundamental forces―the only two known in their time―of electromagnetism and gravity. They thought a fourth dimension ought to do the trick. It almost did. Where is this fourth dimension? K-K […]