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- verb Present participle of
compactify .
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Examples
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Therefore, falling into this made-up black hole, you would experience two of the four dimensions compactifying!
Making Extra Dimensions Disappear Sean 2009
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And then we try to bring that theory back into contact with the observed world around us, compactifying those extra dimensions and trying to match onto particle physics and cosmology.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
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For example, somebody might have claimed that strings have been tested because WW scattering at LHC obeys causality, or that the string landscape exists because after compactifying the Standard Model one gets a few vacua, or …
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Also, “critical” string theory is that thing that people usually just call “string theory”, and this is where you hear all the stuff about it being 10 dimensional, etc, and we have to figure out ways of compactifying six of them to four dimensions, etc.
News From The Front, II cjohnson 2005
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