Postulated and studied by astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, these objects are infinitely long and moving at speeds close to the speed of light. Theorized to have formed loops in the early universe, possibly leading to the clumping of matter that led to galaxy formation, they are defects in the fabric of space-time, and are very thin, about the diameter of a proton, but extre
Postulated and studied by astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, these objects are infinitely long and moving at speeds close to the speed of light. Theorized to have formed loops in the early universe, possibly leading to the clumping of matter that led to galaxy formation, they are defects in the fabric of space-time, and are very thin, about the diameter of a proton, but extremely dense. For 10 points, name these as-yet-unobserved astronomical phenomena that sound a great deal like a 10-dimensional potential theory of everything.
Postulated and studied by astrophysicist J. Richard Gott, these objects are infinitely long and moving at speeds close to the speed of light.
{cosmic string} [do not accept or prompt on “string” or “superstring theory”]