❝ Artists have known this for ages: expressing a phenomenon more precisely means representing more precisely that phenomenon’s form and meaning in multiple dimensions.
Multiple dimensions allow more space for the artist to convey what poet Arthur Sze might call the object’s “hue” or “wave”—its essential meaning, tone or rhythm.

When an artist represents an object in multiple dimensions, he gains more space wherein to unify the object’s form and meaning (the object’s formal and thematic patterns, and the temporary, uncertain presence of those patterns) and thus express the object more comprehensively.

Today the same seems to be true for scientists.
Superstring theory has dominated theoretical physics for the last few decades because it seems to represent and account for physical phenomena in a more unified and precise way than ever before.
By increasing the number of dimensions of spacetime to 10, superstring theory creates enough room to unify all the known forces of nature.
In fact, as I write today in May 2000, the theory is the only physical theory that accomplishes such unification—it is the only standing “Theory of Everything.” ❞

ᔥ Joshua Parkinson in
Physics = Harmonics = Poetics
The Consequences of String Theory for Knowledge and Representation