Is There More To Reality Than What You Experience?

These are the kinds of things I think about on my drive to work.

In 1800, Friedrick William Herschel discovered that the light we see is only a small part of a vast electromagnetic spectrum that we had no idea existed. That discovery has changed everything we know about the universe, as well as sparked life-changing innovations in communication, medicine, and even how we cook our food.

It's hard to imagine how mind-blowing that realization must have been to people at the time - to realize that the light all around them was a small part of something much bigger.

Here, I discuss how the science of Superstring Theory predicts the existence of extra dimensions of reality that we can't perceive currently and what that would mean to our understanding of existence.