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
More startling, it might be a "cosmic string," a bizarre, hypothetical remnant of the chaotic birth of the universe.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Nature report mentions another intriguing possibility for the lens effect: the cosmic string.
From Time Magazine Archive
You could try to construct a cosmic-string time machine by finding a large loop of cosmic string and somehow manipulating it so it would contract rapidly under its own tension, like a rubber band.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cosmic string attached to the earth could accelerate it from 0 to 60 mph in 'Aoth of a second.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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