Hi cavediver,
The Big Bang and Black Holes are predictions of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. ...
It's been a while, and I've been too busy to follow much lately, but how does this affect the 'brane theory (from string theory origin, right?)?
MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos is from 2002 and my other two links now have 404 errors.

I googled the names and came up with
'Brane-Storm' Challenges Part of Big Bang Theory from 2001
and
Evil Genius • View topic - 'Brane-Storm' Challenges Part of Big Bang Theory a 2007 sort of recap\update of the 2001 article
(and what's happened with string theory lately - I'm working on reading Brian Green's book on string theory and have to wonder if I am wasting time on it or should pay attention).
whaaas up eh?
Enjoy