NOUN
- (cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop
How To Use cosmic string In A Sentence
- Massive cosmic strings would also be excellent candidates for gravitational lensing.
- One way to do it, apparently, would be to warp time itself and build a spaceship that can skip between cosmic strings. Times, Sunday Times
- Meanwhile a Russian-Italian team found a much stronger cosmic string candidate in the constellation Corvus: a galaxy split into two uncannily similar and completely undistorted images.
- Young theorists are encouraged in such reasoning by their senior colleagues, some of whom have recently become enamored of the possibility of operating time machines near cosmic strings or wormholes.
- Cosmic string formed due to phase transition in the early universe may be the cause of galaxy formation and clustering.
- It is just the stuff to hold wormholes open with; the more the gravity of the black holes involved tries to squeeze the wormhole shut, the more the cosmic string will expand and hold it open.
