I have never quite understood why there can't be stable stallites in dimensions above 3.
I mean, I know the argument that gravity inverse square law becomes inverse cube law in 4d, but what I do not understand is that what/why enforces that. Why in a hypothetical 4d world there just can not be a gravity-like force that is inverse square? Would that cause some kind of contradiction?
I mean, I know the argument that gravity inverse square law becomes inverse cube law in 4d, but what I do not understand is that what/why enforces that. Why in a hypothetical 4d world there just can not be a gravity-like force that is inverse square? Would that cause some kind of contradiction?