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cosmic string
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cosmic string	has definition Long, stringlike concentrations of matter-energy that may have formed during symmetry breaking in the first moments of the big bang. If they exist, they would be candidates for the seed perturbations of structure formation.
	has definition Microscopically thin, spaghetti-like objects which, according to some theories of elementary particles, could form randomly during a phase transition in the early universe. Cosmic strings could provide the seeds for structure formation in the universe, as an alternative to the possibility that the seeds originated as quantum fluctuations during inflation.
	has definition Some contemporary cosmological theories suggest that boundaries were formed between different regions of the universe at the moment of creation. These boundaries survive today as "cosmic strings", incredibly thin but very massive strings many light years in length.
	is a kind of theoretical celestial body
	is a kind of cosmology theory
cosmology theory	has domain cosmology
physical object	has location or center of gravity
	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has temperature
	has volume
	has extent
	has material
theory	has validity correct or incorrect with caveats
	has author or reasearch group
	has date or a range of dates for which the theory was active

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