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• The other three forces, because they are confined to the D-brane wall, are not similarly weakened. —  Analog, April 2002
• It describes our Universe as a “visible brane,” the D-brane hypersurface that we live in and experience. —  Analog, April 2002
• It also hypothesizes the existence of a nearby “hidden brane,” another Universe on a D-brane that is parallel to ours, but separated at a constant distance from our Universe across two or more of the extra dimensions. —  Analog, April 2002
• There are ripples in the bulk brane, so that the collision happens at slightly different times in different regions of the visible brane. —  Analog, April 2002
• The Clap when the branes collide would restart the Big Bang and bring an end to all life and civilizations that did not have an extra-dimensional escape hatch Another scenario might involve travel to another brane, a parallel Universe that is separated from ours only by a small distance in the extra dimensions (as in my hard SF novel Twistor .) —  Analog, April 2002

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