Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. physics A hypothetical object extending across a number of (often specified) spatial dimensions, with strings in string theory seen as one-dimensional examples.
Etymologies
- Contracted form of membrane. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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) $.”
“The brane is a distinguished sub-manifold (the skin) in the higher-dimensional space.”
“So what has transpired is that there is now the 0-brane, which is a field at a point.”
“This submanifold is called the brane (as in membrane).”
“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.”
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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.”
“Our spacetime cosmology is associated with a D3-brane which is evolving in the so called M-theory bulk.”
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“Even to speak of the future was to create another "brane," another branch of the great multiversal tree.”
“Proposed in 2002 by Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University and Neil Turok from the University of Cambridge, the model argues that our universe exists on a 3D region called a "brane" separated from similar branes by a fourth spatial dimension.”
“and by definition i better shut up the only big bang i know about is what rush got with all that viagra in his suitcase and don't ask me what a 'brane' is”
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skipvia 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. Feb 21, 2008