Randall-Sundrum model

noun

A model describing the universe as a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space where the elementary particles (except the graviton) are localized on a (3 + 1)-dimensional brane or branes.

Meanings

nounRandall-Sundrum model (plural Randall-Sundrum models)

plural Randall-Sundrum models

  1. natural sciencesA model describing the universe as a five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space where the elementary particles (except the graviton) are localized on a (3 + 1)-dimensional brane or branes.

Origin

Proposed in 1999 by Lisa Randall and Raman Sundrum.

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