Hunting for Higher Dimensions

Experimenters scurry to test new theories suggesting that extra dimensions are detectable

Only 2 years ago, the idea of extra dimensions inhabited a nebulous region somewhere between physics and science fiction.

Energy spike from a gluon stands alone because a graviton has fled into extra dimensions, taking energy with it. This simulation models an experiment planned for the Tevatron accelerator, slated to start up again in 2001.