I don't know if physicists do it on purpose to get published, or whether they've drank too much of the kool-aid, but "dimension" is another one of those terribl

I don't know if physicists do it on purpose to get published, or whether they've drank too much of the kool-aid, but "dimension" is another one of those terribly overloaded terms. String theorists say that the universe may have 11 dimensions. So cool! I wonder what's in them!? Maybe my childhood puppy is there! But do you know what they mean? Only that one or more of their equations had an exponent of 11. That's it. There is no correlation or evidence of that translating to physical, or interesting, dimensions that we think of.