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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The theoretical, cosmological model described by branes in which our universe exists in a brane inside a higher-dimensional space called “the bulk.”
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- noun informal, physics Any of several
brane cosmology theories
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Examples
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On the other hand, the fact it involves "braneworld" scenarios makes me feel good about having my fictional FTL drive in my upcoming novel Marseguro operate in "branespace."
Break out the bubbly! ewillett 2007
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The theory holds that the visible universe is a membrane hence "braneworld" embedded within a larger universe, much like a strand of filmy seaweed floating in the ocean.
5th Dimensional 'Braneworld' Staq Mavlen 2006
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Mini Black Holes: If a radical new "braneworld" theory of gravity is correct, then scattered throughout our solar system are thousands of tiny black holes, each about the size of an atomic nucleus.
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If we combine braneworld cosmology and cosmological natural selection, then we obtain a scenario in which self-reproducing universes not only evolve by natural selection, but in which they collide and interact.
Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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The braneworld theory predicts that relatively small "black holes" created in the early universe have survived to the present.
5th Dimensional 'Braneworld' Staq Mavlen 2006
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"If the braneworld theory is correct," they said, "there should be many, many more braneworld black holes throughout the universe, each carrying the signature of a fourth dimension of space."
5th Dimensional 'Braneworld' Staq Mavlen 2006
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For the braneworld model would have notable consequences.
Archive 2006-05-01 Mac 2006
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The "braneworld universe" has five dimensions -- four spatial dimensions plus time -- compared with the four dimensions -- three spatial, plus time -- laid out in the General Theory of Relativity.
5th Dimensional 'Braneworld' Staq Mavlen 2006
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General Relativity says that such primordial black holes would have evaporated away by now, so finding them would make the braneworld hypothesis tenable.
Archive 2006-05-01 Mac 2006
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Petters of Duke base their work on a recent theory called the type II Randall-Sundrum braneworld gravity model.
5th Dimensional 'Braneworld' Staq Mavlen 2006
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