Branes
Links
Brane-Storm Challenges Big Bang Theory
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/bigbang_alternative_010413-1.html
A popular physics explanation of the ekpyrotic model of universe creation
A Workshop on the Ekpyrotic Universe
http://wwwlapp.in2p3.fr/~lesgourg/EKPY/ekpy.htm
The purpose of this workshop will be to offer the opportunity to discuss issues such as the connection with M-theory and cosmological perturbations in the ekpyrotic scenario.
The Cyclic Universe
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204479
An informal introduction to the models of the universe which use higher dimension branes.
Cosmology in a Brane Universe
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0301022
This lecture presents the cosmological models with extra dimensions that have been recently elaborated, which assume that ordinary matter is confined on a surface, called brane, embedded in a higher dimensional spacetime.
A Recycled Universe
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C55B5-C29B-1CDA-B4A8809EC588EEDF
A scientific american article on the brane-world models of the Universe
A Cyclic Universe
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current/article_592_1.asp
An article from Sky & Telescope on the ekpyrotic universe model.
An Invisible Dimension
http://focus.aps.org/v4/st28.html
Extra spatial dimensions--beyond the three we know--might exist, while being invisible to most experiments.
Brane Cosmology
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202044
The aim of these lectures is to give a brief introduction to brane cosmology
2001: A Spacetime Odyssey
http://pauli.physics.lsa.umich.edu/w/arch/som/sto2001/Steinhardt/real/
A lecture on colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang by Paul Steinhardt
Searching for Extra Dimensions
http://d0server1.fnal.gov/users/gll/public/edpublic.htm
A one page article on the search for evidence of higher dimensions.