continuous creation
Britishnoun
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the theory that matter is being created continuously in the universe See steady-state theory
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the theory that animate matter is being continuously created from inanimate matter
Example Sentences
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The Hoyle-Narlikar theory boldly proposed the continuous creation of new matter in an infinite universe.
From BBC • May 23, 2025
“I realized during the pandemic that it’s about the continuous creation of an environment.”
From New York Times • May 9, 2022
The universe of continuous creation, Hoyle believes, is a very cheerful place compared with earlier conceptions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hoyle is a respected scientist, one of the originators of the theory of continuous creation, which holds that the universe is still being formed by particles that appear out of nothing in empty space.
From Time Magazine Archive
The arranging of these loans means the continuous creation of very large amounts of foreign exchange.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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