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- noun Any of the spatially extended mathematical objects of zero or more dimensions used in string theory. A one-dimensional brane, referred to as a “1-brane,” is a string.
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- noun physics A hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial
dimensions , withstrings instring theory seen as one-dimensional examples.
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This treatment, of course, assumes the recovery of the Kerr metric in brane-worlds which we have found to the first order in the ratio of the brane separation to the radius of the AdS$_5$, $ (ell/r) $.
Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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So what has transpired is that there is now the 0-brane, which is a field at a point.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
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So what has transpired is that there is now the 0-brane, which is a field at a point.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
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The brane is a distinguished sub-manifold (the skin) in the higher-dimensional space.
Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008
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This submanifold is called the brane (as in membrane).
Identifying Dark Matter Mark 2006
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This submanifold is called the brane (as in membrane).
Model Building and Naturalness Mark 2006
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More ambiguous is the view from the other side of the "brane" which verifies the father's lifelong quest, but simultaneously seems detached from the central theme.
REVIEW: The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 3 edited by George Mann 2009
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One example, he said, is to confine all the forces of our universe to a four-dimensional plane known as a membrane, or "brane," which is sandwiched between other branes.
Science as a form of "faith"?? Steve Caldwell 2009
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Our spacetime cosmology is associated with a D3-brane which is evolving in the so called M-theory bulk.
If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today 2009
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Even to speak of the future was to create another "brane," another branch of the great multiversal tree.
The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003
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From Wikipedia:
In theoretical physics, a membrane, brane, or p-brane is a spatially extended, mathematical concept that appears in string theory and its relatives (M-theory and brane cosmology). The variable p refers to the spatial dimension of the brane. That is, a 0-brane is a zero-dimensional pointlike particle, a 1-brane is a string, a 2-brane is a "membrane", etc. Every p-brane sweeps out a (p+1)-dimensional world volume as it propagates through spacetime.
February 21, 2008
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in the samebranevein?
February 13, 2014