The central idea is that the visible, three-dimensional universe is restricted to a brane inside a higher-dimensional space, called the "bulk" (also known as "hyperspace"). If the additional dimensions are compact, then the observed universe contains the extra dimensions, and then no reference to the bulk is appropriate. In the bulk model, at least some of the extra dimensions are extensive (possibly infinite), and other branes may be moving through this bulk. Interactions with the bulk, and possibly with other branes, can influence our brane and thus introduce effects not seen in more standard cosmological models. ~Wikipedia
Brane Storm
A slight brushing sound,
and the jackpine was surrounded
with a crackling
ferocious
blue electric aura:
sentient, living, feeling,
it communicated with its peers
in the small grove
on a sacred Hill.
Their light pulsed with wild appreciation
as they exchanged stories
with a visible orange breeze
that smelled of lime,
and spoke
with a wind-chime voice.
A heavy grey luminescence
cloaked boulders in the garden,
enabling the earth to speak
with deep
with resounding
with echoing
voice,
reflecting an inner joy,
communicated
by
harmonic
vibration.
All of this then,
only a brush away,
a brane away,
and only partly aware
of the old man,
and his dog,
watching, enchanted,
from the Reality
next Door.