Sentences with phrase «as brane»

«So what looks sort of disastrously singular, when you describe it as a brane collision, is not very singular at all,» Turok explains.

In the ekpyrotic model, the necessary fluctuations are supposed to arise as the branes ripple quantum mechanically, so that different areas would strike one another and take off expanding first.

Not exact matches

As was already pointed out by Edward Feser in the June / July issue of First Things, even if one grants that string theory is true, Krauss has already conceded the very medieval axiom he thought he was dispatching, since, after all, a «brane» (assuming it exists) is something.

In keeping with this two - dimensional analogy, string theorists describe our observable universe as a membrane — «brane» for short — flapping in the breezes of the actual 10 - dimensional cosmos.

Our brane is not the only one; there are others moving through the bulk as well.

Just as two sheets of paper could be blown together in a storm, different 3 - D branes could collide within the bulk.

This brane may, in turn, occupy a higher - dimensional space known as the bulk.

Most of the particles in our universe stick within the brane, but theorists have proposed that some neutrinos might be able to travel through the bulk as well.

If the black brane has an electric charge, bending it converts mechanical stress into an electric field, as in piezoelectric materials (Physical Review Letters, doi.org/j2c).

Now Jay Armas of Copenhagen University in Denmark and colleagues have shown that black branes can behave like solids as well.

Run forward in time, the big bang appeared as nothing more than two branes smacking into each other like cymbals.

Our brane and its counterpart would bounce off each other as usual, but instead of going their separate ways, they would smack each other again and again as if connected by a spring.

Then later last year, the group discovered in collaboration with Nathan Seiberg of the Institute for Advanced Study that the singularity could be interpreted as a collision between the two «end of the world» branes, in which only the gap dimension separating them shrinks down to zero for an instant.

Orally ingested plant lectins remaining at least partially undigested in the gut may bind to a wide variety of cell mem - branes and glycoconjugates of the intestinal and colonic mucosa, leading to various deleterious effects on the mucosa itself as well as on the intestinal bacterial flora and other inner organs (26, 27).