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On the Possibility of Detecting the Fourth Dimension of Space in Experiments in our Three-Dimensional Subspace

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Under the assumption that four-dimensional space is the true space of the Universe with “our” three-dimensional space entering into the picture as a subspace, the possibility is discussed of setting up an experiment in three-dimensional space to detect the fourth dimension. Toward this end, thermodynamic characteristics of degenerate ideal fermion and boson gases have been obtained in the general case of n spatial dimensions by generalizing the familiar expressions for three-dimensional space.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 10, pp. 85–89, October, 2014.

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Skobelev, V.V. On the Possibility of Detecting the Fourth Dimension of Space in Experiments in our Three-Dimensional Subspace. Russ Phys J 57, 1392–1397 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-015-0394-z

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