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How to Detect Extra Dimensions

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How to Detect Extra Dimensions

A PBS Space Time episode on how gravitational wave observations of a neutron star merger, GW170817, can limit the number of spacetime dimensions. It is based on a 2018 paper.

HN points to it as a clear explanation of the evidence that gravity does not propagate into extra dimensions.

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