Sentences with phrase «between branes»

This attractive force between branes would in fact be a special case of the kind of force that inflationary cosmologies posit to explain the early universe's blowup.

Space within the branes expands, and at first the distance between the branes (in the bulk) grows too.

If the interaction between branes was a collision, it would trigger a fantastically powerful reaction, Steinhardt guessed, given the immense amounts of matter and energy in each one.

When the brane worlds expand so much that their space is nearly empty, however, attractive forces between the branes draw the world - sheets together again.

Not exact matches

So a crash between two empty branes would still be a collision of gigantic proportions.

If our brane is folded over itself, then passing between the folds could offer a shorter path between two points.

So when the authors claim that our 3 - D universe is part of a 10 - dimensional «brane» and that cycles of expansion and contraction result from collisions between our cosmic brane and a neighboring one, the best most readers can do is visualize two giant hands clapping the universe into existence over and over again.

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.