Daunting Parentheticals in Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos"
(Originally appeared in Uber)

(a conclusion you can convincingly confirm by using the newly acquired idler photon data to expose the previously hidden interference pattern among this latter class of signal photons)

(This resembles the old notion of an aether and the newer notion of a Higgs field that has acquired a nonzero value throughout space. The latter similarity is more than mere coincidence since there is an important connection between a cosmological constant and the Higgs field, which we will come to shortly).

(such as the expansion of space, covered in the next section)

(the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe)

(only those electromagnetic field fluctuations whose values vanish at the location of each plate are allowed)

(hometown ball club lost, no one remembered your birthday, someone ate the last chunk of Velveeta)

(For plates roughly the size of playing cards and placed one ten-thousandth of a centimeter apart, the force between them is about equal to the weight of a single teardrop; this shows how challenging it is to measure the Casimir force.)

(hypothetical, infinitely long, filamentary remnants of phase transitions in the early universe)

(and to extract answers that greatly transcend the specific example of spin)

(no bloating or shrinking)

(the messenger particles of the strong force)

(Note: this metaphor is not to scale.)

(the Euler beta function)

(again, ignoring the graviton)

(latitude, longitude, depth of penetration)

(since the Higgs ocean would be made of strings)

(the changing seasons, the rising and setting of the sun, Larry King's weddings)

(As always, higher-dimensional are hard to envision, so if you want a mental picture, think of a can of tomato soup--the three-dimensional liquid soup is analogous to the five-dimensional spacetime, while the two-dimensional surface of the can is analogous to the four-dimensional spacetime boundary.)

(None has ever survived this test)