In the process, it shed another kind of
brane into the 11 - dimensional gap.
Not exact matches
Sham, the most interesting theories around that get
into the whole multiverse thing and membrane, or «
brane theory.
While the electromagnetic and nuclear forces are stuck inside a «
brane» made of four dimensions, gravity leaks out
into the fifth.
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).
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.
Run forward in time, the big bang appeared as nothing more than two
branes smacking
into each other like cymbals.
They collapsed one of these dimensions mathematically
into a minuscule line, yielding an 11 - dimensional spacetime, flanked on either side by two 10 - dimensional membranes, or
branes, colorfully dubbed «end of the world»
branes.
The
branes» oscillating motion would work to pump space
into our universe like a bellows, explaining the acceleration that we see today.