Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-04-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, latex. Invited plenary review, to appear in the proceedings of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1419526
Unified theories suggest that space is intrinsically 10 dimensional, even though everyday phenomena seem to take place in only 3 large dimensions. In ``Brane World'' models, matter and radiation are localized to a ``brane'' which has a thickness less than 1/TeV in all but the usual three dimensions, while gravity propagates in additional dimensions, some of which may extend as far as submillimeter scales. A brief review is presented of some of these models and their astrophysical phenomenology. One distinctive possibility is a gravitational wave background originating in the mesoscopic early universe, at temperatures above about 1 TeV and on scales smaller than a millimeter, during the formation of our 3-dimensional brane within a 10-dimensional space.
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