cosmic string
Britishnoun
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Riley celebrated his 90th birthday in June with two Tokyo concerts by the Kronos Quartet, one being, at the composer’s request, the Japanese premiere of Riley’s most cosmic string quartet, “Sun Rings.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025
The enormous mass would warp the region around a cosmic string so that space itself would act like a distorting lens.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Nature report mentions another intriguing possibility for the lens effect: the cosmic string.
From Time Magazine Archive
More startling, it might be a "cosmic string," a bizarre, hypothetical remnant of the chaotic birth of the universe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Godel solution and the cosmic string space-time start out so distorted that travel into the past was always possible.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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