cosmic string

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cosmic string

Any of numerous very long and thin alterations or topological defects in spacetime hypothesized to have resulted from the Big Bang and to have made possible the conglomeration of mass into large-scale structures such as galaxy clusters and the inhomogeneous distribution of matter in the universe.

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cosmic string

(General Physics) a one-dimensional defect in space-time postulated in certain theories of cosmology to exist in the universe as a consequence of the big bang. See also string¹¹

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cosmic string - (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop

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cosmogeny, cosmogony, cosmology - the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe

elementary particle, fundamental particle - (physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matter

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Another theory suggests that the filament is a cosmic string, one of the unexplained but theoretically proven entities in space.

Evidence Of Cosmic Strings?

The dark, cool region is dotted with stellar factories, like pearls on a cosmic string.

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In over 50 papers contributors memorialize Gamov and his theories and address the phenomenology of brane-world cosmological models, black holes, gravitational wave experiments, supernova explosions, axisymmetric stationary flows in compact objects, the higher co-dimension brane-world, ghost stellar fields as a dark energy, the rotating universe, quantum scattering on a cosmic string, line-driven winds near compact objects, weak magnetism effects, the trans-sonic propeller stage, high-energy neutrinos from a collapsing supermassive star, star complexes and starburst clumps in spiral galaxies, a model of nonthermal radiation of a shell-type supernova remnant, space mission Rosetta, and the detection and properties of a near-earth flux of dark electric matter objects.

Astrophysics and cosmology after Gamow; proceedings

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Cosmic String a recent winner for and should go close, but Meade's runner gets the nod.

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A reproduction of either effort might be enough for Count Kearney against obvious threat Cosmic String in today's opener.

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The definition at cosmic string refers to "millions of light-years".

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When Gott looked at the equations of general relativity to see what they said about spacetime in the vicinity of a single cosmic string, he found that it would offer no possibility of time travel.

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Among them, cosmic string and monopole seem to be the best candidates to be observed.

Exact Solutions of Scalar Bosons in the Presence of the Aharonov-Bohm and Coulomb Potentials in the Gravitational Field of Topological Defects

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Let us first consider a massless cosmic string in four-dimensional Minkowski space that is oriented along the spacelike direction given by the vector d = (0, 0,0,1) and moving in the null direction n = (1,1,0,0) (in Cartesian coordinates i, x, y, z).

Space-Time Defects and Group Momentum Space

claimer Niki O'Shea, the son of Daylami, bought for pounds 52,000 out of Brian Meehan's yard at the Newmarket Sales, outpointed the fast-finishing Cosmic String.