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Programme two: The Future

Doughnut shapes could represent two dimensions curled up together
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What are these 11 dimensions like? Physicists believe that at every point in space there are tiny curled up extra dimensions, so small that we have been unable to measure them. This would account for some of the 11 dimensions. Doughnut shapes could represent two dimensions curled up together, but all 11 might sit one inside another.

Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time'A little magnet easily picking up a paper clipSuper symmetryString theory
String theory brings together Einstein's relativity and quantum mechanicsGreen and Schwarz's calculations showed that 11 dimensions must existDoughnut shapes could represent two dimensions curled up togetherIf gravity does seep into our world through extra dimensions, then it will produce lots of tiny exploding black holes around the points of entry
The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in Switzerland, the biggest particle accelerator in the worldIf they do exist, Hawking's tiny exploding black holes will show up in the particle accelerator like the lights of a Christmas tree
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