Sentence:  We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every <WSD>branch</WSD> of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (area) An area in business or of knowledge, research.