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- noun Plural form of
brane .
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Ooooooookyute quick close eyes branes startnn tu feel funy….whar kin I gets dose purrtektib gogglezzzzzzz…………..branes awl fuzzyfeelinnnnnn……….such purty kolurs when I closes mah eyesssssss……..
How much further - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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PAUL STEINHARDT: One of the ideas in string theory that was particularly striking to me, and suggested perhaps a new direction for cosmology, is the idea of branes and the idea of branes moving in extra dimensions.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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M-theory speculations include surfaces containing separate spacetimes called branes which can interact.
If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today 2009
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String Theory is still an unfulfilled promise for unifying Theoretical Physics, but it's use of the term branes for space and time structures is pretty funny.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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According to M‑theory, strings are not really the fundamental particle, but are only examples of more general objects, called branes, short for membranes.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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According to M‑theory, strings are not really the fundamental particle, but are only examples of more general objects, called branes, short for membranes.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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According to M‑theory, strings are not really the fundamental particle, but are only examples of more general objects, called branes, short for membranes.
Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001
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"the idea of branes and the idea of branes moving in extra dimensions"
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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A: Well, there are other theories involving "branes" and colliding dimensions, but no one really understands them, even the physicists who came up with them.
Heaven help us: Gene explains religion Gene Weingarten 2010
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No I really had no clue that in this case "branes" was a term of art.
Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009
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