cosmic string

cosmic string

noun Physics.
string (def. 3).
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Cosmic string is always a great word to know.
So is supercollider. Does it mean:
any of the energy levels of a physical system, such as an atom or molecule, that has higher energy than the lowest energy level
a very large colliding-beam machine in which superconducting magnets create millions of megavolts of energy
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cosmic string
 
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See also string 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

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